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eton
Jan 30, 2013Luminary
Will the Atom CPU take over?
The Sparc processor is greatly supported with add-ons and support in the forum and the CPU has been long lived. The Arm processor has not ben used for so long and it's support is much weaker. And all ...
StephenB
Jan 30, 2013Guru - Experienced User
Well, the sparc architecture is certainly EOL. We won't see any new products using that processor.
I see room for both ARM and x86 architectures for the forseeable future. ARM is reasonable for simple file servers, but if you want to do more compute-intensive stuff then the x86 is advantageous.
I see room for both ARM and x86 architectures for the forseeable future. ARM is reasonable for simple file servers, but if you want to do more compute-intensive stuff then the x86 is advantageous.
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