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Interesting when coupled with how many we are losing. It wasn't that long ago that PA-RISC, Sparc, Alpha, Power, MIPS, etc all credibly competed with one another and Intel. Now it's almost all x86-64 and ARM.


ISAs are consolidating sure, but the interesting parts of the chips are also consolidating. A few years ago several companies were designing new Arm cores; now it's pretty much just Arm and Apple.


There are still other companies doing new core designs: Huawei/HiSilicon (Taishan v110 in 2019), Marvell/Cavium (Thunder X2 in 2018), Samsung (M4 in 2019), Fujitsu (A64FX is 2019), Nvidia (carmel in 2018).

If you count semi-custom cores derived from ARM designs, then add Ampere Computing and Qualcomm as well.


In the server space that's true, Arm cores are proliferating. But Samsung shut their core group down and Qualcomm is moving that direction.




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