Many x86 Laptop Improvements In Linux 6.10 Plus Acer ARM Laptop

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  • archkde
    Senior Member
    • May 2019
    • 667

    #11
    Originally posted by loganj View Post
    what advantage has arm over x86? (other than power consumption)
    im curios why everybody want to produce arm cpus

    Not even power consumption is better with ARM.

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    • klokik
      Junior Member
      • May 2018
      • 38

      #12
      Originally posted by loganj View Post

      but if amd/nvidia/whoever starts to produce arm and add same features as x86 will this not make the said procesor as close as before?
      are they force in anyway to make the feature available for the rest of manufacturers if they decide to go arm? cause if not everything will be the same
      ARM as a company is in charge of instruction set features. Sure, a vendor may implement their proprietary extensions that will only work on their hardware, but that's just not sustainable in the long run unless said vendor has a monopoly. Even Apple while having a non-standard implementation of matrix math extensions (understandably, as it was likely not standardized at the time when the core was designed, which likely influenced the final extension design) never even advertised them for developer use outside through an API, later on implemented ARMv9 compliant SME, that should be compatible with all the other players.

      If a vendor will start locking you in - do not buy from that vendor, with ARM we fortunately have a choice. RISC-V is unfortunately not there yet, POWER is both too expensive and hungry, MIPS and SPARC are effectively dead, Loongson is a single-vendor, same as a dozen other "domestic" processors that have no chances of survival without deep government pockets.

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