Arm Announces Cortex-A77 & Mali-G77 Valhall

[andreano]

It is hard to be enthusiastic about a new GPU architecture while the drivers (Lima/Panfrost) for the 3 extant architectures are still in their infancy.

[hajj_3]

All the Huawei-hate of late.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/huaweis-yearslong-rise-is-littered-with-accusations-of-theft-and-dubious-ethics-11558756858

[mlau]

What are you talking about here?

All the Huawei-hate of late.

[wizard69]

Recent events proved that ARM, Google and their products are just IP weapons to strike back the rival.

What are you talking about here? I’ve yet to hear of anything outlandish happening with ARM. As for Google I don’t touch their products at all thus the desire for Linux.

By by the way yes ARM could do better with documentation and drivers. However I’ve not heard of them getting worse in this regard.

[wizard69]

"Now if we could only get this chipset in a decent tablet running Linux."

or a decent laptop (even if it is only a Chromebook)
or better yet, an affordable SBC

Actually a single board computer would be very nice. Maybe Odroid is up to something.

[Modu]

Recent events proved that ARM, Google and their products are just IP weapons to strike back the rival.

[andreano]

Will A77 be the first spectre resistant "big" core? A76 was the first to be resistant against variant 2:

https://developer.arm.com/support/ar...-vulnerability

[discordian]

"Now if we could only get this chipset in a decent tablet running Linux."

or a decent laptop (even if it is only a Chromebook)
or better yet, an affordable SBC

Id prefer if we end up with SMARC Modules, and laptops that are able to use these.

[starshipeleven]

Now if we could only get this chipset in a decent tablet running Linux.

U liek blobs bro?

[asoltesz]

"Now if we could only get this chipset in a decent tablet running Linux."

or a decent laptop (even if it is only a Chromebook)
or better yet, an affordable SBC