AMD could enter ARM market with Sound Wave APU built on TSMC 3nm process

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darkamaul ◴[31 Oct 25 07:37 UTC] No.45769289[source]▶

Better (or simply more) ARM processors, no matter who makes them, are a win. They tend to be far more power-efficient, and with performance-per-watt improving each generation, pushing for wider ARM adoption is a practical step toward lowering overall energy consumption.

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1. pjmlp ◴[31 Oct 25 08:58 UTC] No.45769815[source]▶

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With the caveat that ARM isn't a industry standard like PC has become, thus while propritary OSes can thrive, FOSS has a much higher challenge other than OEM specific distros or downstream forks.

Stuff like this, https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Microsoft-Corporation/dp/15723171...

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2. antonkochubey ◴[31 Oct 25 10:46 UTC] No.45770548[source]▶

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There are the Arm SystemReady and ServerReady requirements/specifications that enable generic board support by the OSes.

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3. pjmlp ◴[31 Oct 25 10:56 UTC] No.45770616[source]▶

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Thanks, I thought we were still on device trees and little else.

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4. jakogut ◴[31 Oct 25 13:31 UTC] No.45771792{3}[source]▶

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Practically speaking, very few systems actually support SystemReady. There's an experimental port of edk2 for the Raspberry Pi, but some hardware is unavailable when using it.

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5. jabl ◴[31 Oct 25 15:02 UTC] No.45772750{4}[source]▶

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The ARM server platforms seem quite decent here? But yeah, pick any small dev board and I suspect it looks quite different.

6. pezezin ◴[01 Nov 25 10:29 UTC] No.45780610[source]▶

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It's weird that the book is titled "PC98", because PC-98 usually refers to NEC's line of x86 but not IBM PC compatible computers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-98

Which I think reinforces your argument: there were non-standard x86 platforms, but thankfully they died out. Given the situation of the home computer industry during the 8 and 16-bit eras, it is a small miracle that we ended up having an open industry standard.

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