2024 might be the breakout year for efficient ARM chips in desktop and laptop PCs.

  • fubarx
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    11 个月前

    Yup. But was thinking more of ultra-small-run ARM or RISC-V processors. Be cool if we ever get there.

    • rasensprenger@feddit.de
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      11 个月前

      It would be cool, but photolithography masks are insanely expensive, and completely independent of run size. So, not happening any time soon. Even when you use old processes above 40nm and share the mask costs between multiple projects, you need 10s to 100s of thousands of dollars.

    • StarDreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      11 个月前

      You can build a risc core using an fpga. Plenty of people have done that.

      Performance will probably be an issue.