Due to increasing difficulty in obtaining high-performance x86 servers, Chinese datacenter companies are ramping up the adoption of Arm-based system-on-chips. Currently, 40% of Arm-powered servers are used in China, according to investment banking firm Bernstein, as reported by @EricJhonsa.
The vast majority of servers are running on x86 processors from AMD and Intel. Still, Arm-based SoCs are gaining market share now that multiple companies, including AWS, Ampere, Google, Fujitsu, Microsoft, and Nvidia have developed and/or adopted Arm-powered SoCs. But while U.S.-based hyperscalers are slowly adopting Arm-based processors in their datacenters, Chinese companies are more inclined to use them because they may not always be able to procure Intel's Xeon or AMD's EPYC.
