From b7e922f1459d9e4bc791fe5dc48d27184431dd6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard W.M. Jones Date: May 03 2018 10:24:01 +0000 Subject: part 3: Add information about the server market. --- diff --git a/talk-part-3.txt b/talk-part-3.txt index fa57a47..6dfe40b 100644 --- a/talk-part-3.txt +++ b/talk-part-3.txt @@ -1,12 +1,30 @@ Part 3: Thoughts on RISC-V on the server 4 MINUTES (ABOUT 240 WORDS) +[* Figures from IDC for 2017] I want to talk finally about RISC FIVE's prospects on the server. -There's a real need that open hardware could satisfy, but make -no mistake it will be incredibly hard for RISC FIVE to enter this -market. But at least you can avoid the mistakes that a popular and -widely licensed I-S-A vendor has been making. + +The server market is worth about 80 billion dollars annually. About +3 million physical servers are shipped each year. If you do the +math that's about $27K per server, so the numbers are skewed by +very large systems. + +Non-x86 servers are about 15% of the server market by value. + +There's also a synergy between handsets and servers - the more +phones that are sold, the more servers are needed to run the +services used by those phones. + +There's a real need that open hardware could satisfy. Real +time is a particular problem with Intel hardware because of +opaque power management and system interrupts. And there are +concerns from some customers about whether they can trust +their hardware. + +But make no mistake it will be incredibly hard for RISC FIVE to +enter this market. But at least you can avoid making the mistakes +that a popular and widely licensed I-S-A vendor has been making. SLIDE: Generic datacenter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_center#/media/File:Cabinet_Asile.jpg