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

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

  • stealth_cookies@lemmy.caEnglish
    71·
    6 months ago

    Now? FPGAs have been a thing for decades and are the closest thing I can see to getting custom chips made without massive investments.

    • fubarxEnglish
      12·
      6 months ago

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

      • rasensprenger@feddit.deEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        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.zoneEnglish
        11·
        6 months ago

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

        Performance will probably be an issue.