Linus Torvalds on Why ARM Won't Win the Server Space (2019)

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Is x86 on the server going to dissuade people from using ARM dev devices (specifically the M1 mac)..?

Or is m1 going make ARM cloud a reality?

I feel heavily towards the former for the next 3-4 years atleast because that's what I find myself doing even though I can run a Linux x86 Vm inside my Mac and cross compile fairly easily.

Would the x86 on the cloud create a chicken and the egg kind of lock-in?

I thought this was interesting in retrospect, now that Apple have switched to ARM on the desktop, and AWS are heavily pushing ARM on the server.

After reading the thread, Linus sounds cautiously bullish on ARM on the server space.

https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=183440&curpost...

Oh, the whole thread is worth a read to hear the various views. For posterity, I should also link the previous discussion on HN from a years back, and from which I've taken the title and link:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19224579

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