Microsoft unveils new ARM server designs, threatening Intel’s dominance

theverge.com ^ | Mar 9, 2017, 7:45am EST | James Vincent

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Intel has a near-monopoly in the server industry, with its own ads proclaiming that “98 percent of the cloud runs on Intel.” That’s why Microsoft’s pledge to use ARM chips in its severs — hinted at for a while and outlined more fully at the Open Compute Summit this week — is such a big deal. Microsoft is the second biggest cloud company in the US after Amazon, and if it moves even a small bit of its business away from Intel’s products, it threatens the veteran chipmaker’s most lucrative revenue stream, responsible for $7.5 billion in operating profit last year.

[jr3000]

This ARM device cost only $5

https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/pi-zero/

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Interesting....back later!

[minnesota_bound]

I read that the newest Intel and AMD chips will only allow Windows 10 install and not any older versions of Windows
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2498097,00.asp

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Older versions may run, if not don’t call But put up something like VMware and run it under a Virtual Machine,.