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Alibaba's Yitian 710 is quickest server CPU but it is based on Arm
Study was conducted across eight cloud servers
Key players such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform are no strangers to 64-bit Arm CPUs, having introduced their own versions of virtual machines running on these servers. That said, for Online Analytical Processing (OLAP), Machine Learning inference, and blockchain tasks, Arm-based servers struggled to match Xeon. You can view the full set of benchmarks in The Register ’s report, which also notes that the Yitian 710 “has some inherent advantages: it uses a newer version of the Arm ISA, and speedy DDR5 RAM that some rival CPUs cant utilize.”
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