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ARM has 250 licensees for application processors with 8 licensees (including AMD and Nvidia) who can develop their own architectures around the 64 bit ARM instr
by klelatti 6y ago
ARM has 250 licensees for application processors with 8 licensees (including AMD and Nvidia) who can develop their own architectures around the 64 bit ARM instruction set.
You can buy socketed ARM CPUs today that are likely to be more than fast enough - from Marvell for example.
You're 100 % right that there isn't an ARM ecosystem at the moment in the way that there is a PC ecosystem with all its flexibility.
But that's not a feature of the ARM architecture or what ARM as a company does - it's because x86 has historically dominated the desktop.
- sudosysgen 6y agoThere's only about two ARM licensees that can even come close to desktop tier performance. The instruction set doesn't matter if only one company can make a fast enough CPU, using a massive number proprietary changes to the original architecture. When we'll have three ARM companies making socketed CPUs with standardized I/O between them that are faster or very close to AMD or Intel, then it will be good.
- imtringued 6y agoPreferably AMD just makes an ARM based chip. They have done so in the past.