Merchant ARM server is mostly dead unfortunately. Hyperscalers like AWS are making their own SoCs in house however. Amazona acquired Annapurna labs for that purpose. Personally I see there being more market overlap…
No, the area numbers quoted are for TSMC N7. You can look up comparable A75 die area numbers for N7 as well. A Cortex A76 on TSMC N7 takes up 1.27mm with L2 included. A P550 takes up 0.38mm.
The P550 core in the title is actually a 3 way issue OOO core with near A76 performance, but fair point on the dev boards. Hopefully Intel's dev board or some alternative will provide a lower cost option.
Merchant ARM server is mostly dead unfortunately. Hyperscalers like AWS are making their own SoCs in house however. Amazona acquired Annapurna labs for that purpose. Personally I see there being more market overlap…
No, the area numbers quoted are for TSMC N7. You can look up comparable A75 die area numbers for N7 as well. A Cortex A76 on TSMC N7 takes up 1.27mm with L2 included. A P550 takes up 0.38mm.
The P550 core in the title is actually a 3 way issue OOO core with near A76 performance, but fair point on the dev boards. Hopefully Intel's dev board or some alternative will provide a lower cost option.