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Yes, and soon we will have PIC powered and AVR powered servers in the data center, joining our ARM and RISC V servers.


Don't forget the 6502.xxlarge instance coming soon to AWS :) /s


I'm betting the shop on 68k.24xlarge


You can have whatever you want, via FPGA instances (like F1).


There are ARM and RISC-V servers. The ARM ones are even available in major clouds. Why are you comparing to microcontrollers?


> RISC-V servers

There are?


I'm counting the HiFive; I suppose it depends how you define your terms. The point is that RISC-V can scale down to compete with PIC/AVR, but it can also scale up to "real" compute so it's a bit nonsense to dismiss it as only being for embedded.


> I'm counting the HiFive

Isn't it years behind ARM/x86 performance wise?

> nonsense to dismiss it as only being for embedded

They unlikely to be competitive anywhere else without significant investment.

> but it can also scale up to "real" compute

Did anyone doubt that you could theoretically scale up ARM to be competitive with x86 back in ~2000? It still took them several decades to achieve that..


> but it can also scale up to "real" compute so it's a bit nonsense to dismiss it as only being for embedded.

Especially after being selected for EU super computer effort.




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