[Info-vax] Sunway TaihuLight is the fastest supercomputer in the world

[lawrencedo99 at gmail.com]

On Saturday, June 25, 2016 at 9:16:42 PM UTC+12, johnwa... at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> This was at a time when some people in DEC HQ still thought
> there was useful profit to be made from designing and building
> robust well engineered x86 PCs for the business market.
> Ignoring what would turn out to be a high volume low margin
> barely profitable business was not thought to be an option. Oh
> well.

It’s worth pointing out that x86 Windows-compatible PCs may be a low-margin business for the PC vendors, but it’s very much high-margin for Intel and Microsoft.

The real high-volume CPU business is dominated by ARM. And in the markets where that chip sells, both Intel and Microsoft have been taking a hammering.