I'm hoping the Panfrost project pans-out. Lol. The project lead is doing all the work on an armv7 chromebook. But they have a proof of concept and are planning to get it to work with mesa. I wish my skills were good enough to help on a project like that.
To anyone wanting an arm box with decent power behind it, there's the tegra series (very expensive though), and the latest suscessful chipset from rockchip RK3399. Boards with that chip are the rock64pro and the TBA Odroid-N1 which should be announced for sale in the coming weeks I guess. I have that chipset powering my Chromebook and it's pretty snappy. It's not gonna replace a box used for compiling large projects or video editing/transcoding, but for what it is, it's quick. Good for browsing the interwebs, hosting a high speed NAS, etc.
I don't really expect to see this new arm CPU IP in the wild any time soon. Manufactures use the crap out of what they already paid for and only turn to new hardware when what they're currently using won't cut it. So don't expect to see this CPU for 3 to 5 years. Don't expect to see Linux support for that processor for another 2+ years after that.
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Originally posted by Space Heater View PostHard to get excited about new Mali graphics when ARM refuses to support open drivers.
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Hard to get excited about new Mali graphics when ARM refuses to support open drivers.
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Originally posted by TheOne View PostNow I would like to see some SoC using this. I have been waiting for years to replace my power hungry x86-x64 equipment with a low power consumption arm board... I have been looking for low power x64 cpus (because of steam) but non convinces me because they perform really poor...
Originally posted by quaz0r View Post"7nm"
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Originally posted by numacross View PostYet another core that's vulnerable to Spectre?- Decoupled branch prediction and instruction fetch: Built to hide latency at high bandwidth, the in-order Cortex-A76 front-end is able to fetch 4 to 8 instructions per cycle, using multi-level branch target caches and hybrid indirect predictor to sustain the maximum throughput.
Originally posted by TheOne View PostNow I would like to see some SoC using this. I have been waiting for years to replace my power hungry x86-x64 equipment with a low power consumption arm board... I have been looking for low power x64 cpus (because of steam) but non convinces me because they perform really poor...
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Strange that they do not even mention any Spectre mitigation attempts. One would think that every customer wants to know if a new core is still susceptible to these dire security flaws.
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So we'll probably see this in budget smartphones in about 3-5 years right? Looking forward to it.
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Originally posted by numacross View PostYet another core that's vulnerable to Spectre?
BUT, they did some some of issues: https://developer.arm.com/support/ar...-vulnerability
Variant 2 and 3 are solved. Variant 1 and Variant 4 (just announced) are still present.
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Now I would like to see some SoC using this. I have been waiting for years to replace my power hungry x86-x64 equipment with a low power consumption arm board... I have been looking for low power x64 cpus (because of steam) but non convinces me because they perform really poor...
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