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Modern x64 is very difficult to beat and takes a lot more than just raw core count. Are there any alternatives on the horizon?
by marktangotango 7y ago
Modern x64 is very difficult to beat and takes a lot more than just raw core count.
Are there any alternatives on the horizon?
- ryacko 7y agoIt takes scale to reduce prices, low prices to create demand, demand to produce scale. Everything but the control unit of the CPU could be kept the same, but that is still a different wafer design.
- monocasa 7y agoAArch64, and RISC-V. POWER is a monoculture, and MIPS never really got out of it's gate count niche.
- farisjarrah 7y agoMIPS may enjoy a resurgence, it will be open sourced soon I have read.
- monocasa 7y agoIt wasn't really open sourced. It's open in the sense that if you pay a bunch of money, and sign an NDA, you'll be given access to the source... which has always been the case. Some sales bro bought MIPS and slapped an "open" label on it. IMO, it's current steward has done more to kill it then ARM and RISC-V ever could.
- holy_city 7y agoBased on benchmarks (take them at face value) [1], Apple's A12/A12x processors are roughly 80% the performance of current-gen desktop CPUs (and on par with some mobile ones) in single threaded performance. I think a bit of that is power concerns, even with the 8 core chips. There have been rumors floating around that Apple will switch to their own ARM cores (based on the A12, probably) for a future generation of Mac computers. I think they'd have to meet or beat x86 for that to happen. Interestingly they're manufactured with TSMC's 7nm process, just like the new AMD chips. https://browser.geekbench.com/ios-benchmarks https://browser.geekbench.com/ios-benchmarks