Qualcomm Takes on Apple: The Battle For Chip Speed
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In this episode we dive into the how Qualcomm is looking to be a new challenger to both Apple and Intel. This was thanks in part to a purchase of the firm Nu...

Qualcomm brought a company named Nuvia, which are ex-Apple engineers that help designed the M series Apple silicon chips to produce Oryon which exceeds Apple’s M2 Max in single threaded benchmarks.

The impression I get is than these are for PCs and laptops

I’ve been following the development of Asahi Linux (Linux on the M series MacBooks) with this new development there’s some exciting times to come.

    • taanegl@beehaw.org
      281·
      8 months ago

      I kind of agree, in that ARM is even more locked down than x86, but if I could get an ARM with UEFI and all computational power is available to the Linux kernel, then I wouldn’t mind trying one out for a while.

      But yes, I can’t wait for RISC-V systems to become mainstream for consumers.

        • taanegl@beehaw.org
          91·
          8 months ago

          Generally speaking, and I’m not talking about your Raspberry Pi’s, but even there we find some limitations for getting a system up and booting - and it’s not for lack of transistors.

          But say if you take a consumer facing ARM device, almost always the bootloader is locked and apart of some read only ROM - that if you touch it without permission voids your warranty.

          Compare that with an x86 system, whereby the boot loader is installed on an independent partition and has to be “declared” to the firmware, which means you can have several systems on the same machine.

          Note how I’m talking about consumer devices and not servers for data centres or embedded systems.

    • Chobbes@lemmy.world
      16·
      8 months ago

      I think you’ll be waiting a pretty long time for high end RISC-V CPUs, unfortunately. I don’t particularly trust Qualcomm, but I’m really hoping to see some good arm laptops for Linux.

    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      8 months ago

      You don’t trust… a company that licenses an ISA?

      When your current alternative is a duopoly spearheaded by Intel?

    • ftatateeta
      34·
      8 months ago

      You might wait for a long time if America bans RISC-V development.