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

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283 points walterbell | 3 comments | 31 Oct 25 03:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.748s | source
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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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pjmlp ◴[31 Oct 25 08:58 UTC] No.45769815[source]▶
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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antonkochubey ◴[31 Oct 25 10:46 UTC] No.45770548[source]▶
There are the Arm SystemReady and ServerReady requirements/specifications that enable generic board support by the OSes.
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1. pjmlp ◴[31 Oct 25 10:56 UTC] No.45770616[source]▶
Thanks, I thought we were still on device trees and little else.
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2. jakogut ◴[31 Oct 25 13:31 UTC] No.45771792[source]▶
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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3. jabl ◴[31 Oct 25 15:02 UTC] No.45772750[source]▶
The ARM server platforms seem quite decent here? But yeah, pick any small dev board and I suspect it looks quite different.