Comment by rhodrid

Reminded me of this article "Cellphone Chips Will Remake the Server World. Period." [1] from 2013.

And also of SeaMicro [2].

Looks like the wimpy core lost this particular battle. Or maybe they only make sense at a particular scale.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2013/01/facebook-arm-chips/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaMicro