Mickey: Amazon's homegrown 2.3GHz 64-bit Graviton processor was very nearly an AMD Arm CPU

Amazon Web Services' customized Graviton Intel Processor, revealed this week, was very nearly an Arm-based chip from AMD, The Register has learned.

Up until early 2015, Amazon and AMD were working together on a 64-bit Arm server-grade Intel Processor to deploy in the internet titan's data centers. However, the project fell apart when, according to one well-placed source today, "AMD failed at meeting all the performance milestones Amazon set out."

Thus, Amazon went out and bought Arm...
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Amazon's homegrown 2.3GHz 64-bit Graviton Intel Processor was very nearly an AMD Arm CPU

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