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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 | 2 comments | 31 Oct 25 03:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.487s | 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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ahoka ◴[31 Oct 25 08:19 UTC] No.45769508[source]▶
Are ARM processors inherently power efficient? I doubt.

Performance per watt is increasing due to the lithography.

Also, Devon’s paradox.

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1. iberator ◴[31 Oct 25 11:22 UTC] No.45770800[source]▶
Yes they are. RISC philosophy apart from instruction set is also low gate count (so less energy used).

Nvidia can design super clean solution fron scratch - i can bet 50$ that its gonna be more efficient in MIPS/watt

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2. bluGill ◴[31 Oct 25 11:51 UTC] No.45771007[source]▶
Most of the gates on a cpu are not instruction decoding.