The comments are of course filled with cope, but as far as I can tell, a lot of the machines that these are replacing are quite old, like Westmere and Sandy Bridge machines appear to still be common in education and government.
Westmere Xeon processors are still quite OK imo. I have an old enterprise machine with one. 12 Threads, 2.6 GHz is still quite usable for many things. I mostly use it to compile larger software. But personally I’d argue that Longsoon is already far better than Intel/AMD since Longsoon is based on MIPS, which is based on RISC, while Intel/AMD still clings to their bloated and way too power hungry CISC crap. Plus today most performance comes from parallelism and cache size rather than core frequency and Longsoon does already have 128 and 256-bit vector instructions in their ISA, which is pretty decent. Maybe they can figure out a 512-bit vector extension that doesn’t severely throttle the CPU when using it before Intel can, lol.
I agree, there’s a lot that these chips have going for them. But they’re definitely not replacing xeons either, the machines they’re replacing are low-end. Mostly pentiums, celerons, i3s.
