SoftBank Group to Acquire Ampere Computing for 6.5B
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SoftBank Group to Acquire Ampere Computing for 6.5B
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Re: SoftBank Group to Acquire Ampere Computing for 6.5B
#2Ampere is still the only people making a decent purchaseable ARM server. Not loving the idea of there being a bunch of new debt hovering over them now.
Re: SoftBank Group to Acquire Ampere Computing for 6.5B
#3Well, I guess it was either them or Oracle, given previous acquisition rumours.
Re: SoftBank Group to Acquire Ampere Computing for 6.5B
#4Ampere is still the only people making a decent purchaseable ARM server. Not loving the idea of there being a bunch of new debt hovering over them now.
I use their servers in a couple of cloud environments. That little things are snappy, for what I have given them as tasks. Wish them best of luck to the future.
Re: SoftBank Group to Acquire Ampere Computing for 6.5B
#5So Softbank now competes with Arm's customers and (unless I've missed something on new governance arrangements) also gets access to confidential information on Arm's customers' businesses (plans, volumes etc). Hmmm.
Re: SoftBank Group to Acquire Ampere Computing for 6.5B
#6Well, I guess it was either them or Oracle, given previous acquisition rumours.
Given Oracle's tendency to use pillows on processor architectures and bury them at night, Softbank is possibly the better of two evils?
Jokes aside, I don't believe Oracle would evolve the A1s beyond what they need, and stagnate them for years instead.
Re: SoftBank Group to Acquire Ampere Computing for 6.5B
#7Well, I guess it was either them or Oracle, given previous acquisition rumours.
Given Oracle's tendency to use pillows on processor architectures and bury them at night, Softbank is possibly the better of two evils? Jokes aside, I don't believe Oracle would evolve the A1s beyond what they need, and stagnate them for years instead.
Might be, but that is the thing, while it is tradition to complain about Oracle, in many cases their are the only ones that show up at the door with the suitcase full of money.
So where are the others that supposedly are better than them?
In this case, Softbank will be having ARM and Ampere.
Re: SoftBank Group to Acquire Ampere Computing for 6.5B
#8Ampere is still the only people making a decent purchaseable ARM server. Not loving the idea of there being a bunch of new debt hovering over them now.
Re: SoftBank Group to Acquire Ampere Computing for 6.5B
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Given Oracle's tendency to use pillows on processor architectures and bury them at night, Softbank is possibly the better of two evils? Jokes aside, I don't believe Oracle would evolve the A1s beyond what they need, and stagnate them for years instead.
Might be, but that is the thing, while it is tradition to complain about Oracle, in many cases their are the only ones that show up at the door with the suitcase full of money. So where are the others that supposedly are better than them? In this case, Softbank will be having ARM and Ampere.
This depends on definition of "better". Maybe your question is better suited as "So, where are the others that supposedly are richer than them?"
In that case, we have the CPU manufacturers, which already do this as the business, Google, which is not that interested, or already make their own chips, Apple, which has an in-house CPU/GPU company, and probably IBM, which also designs and builds their own processors.
So, the only interested shopper in the vicinity is Oracle, and they happen to have the money. The others have the money, but not the interest.
Re: SoftBank Group to Acquire Ampere Computing for 6.5B
#10Ampere is still the only people making a decent purchaseable ARM server. Not loving the idea of there being a bunch of new debt hovering over them now.
What about https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-pro/rack#
That's not a server. It is a rackable desktop.
You won't run general purpose server apps on this.