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Ask HN: It the trend toward RISC permanent?
Apple Silicon (TSMC), Intel, ARM Holdings, Windows on ARM... Is this a larger sustained trend? Will Data Centers move toward RISC?
- runjake 6y agoPermanent is such a permanent word. I think Microsoft will shift more to an ARM focus. I think we'll see Intel start offering mass-market chips with ARM instructions in them. IIRC, they are already an ARM licensee.
- 1-6 6y agoI think we'll pretty soon see computers with higher RAM requirements because of reduced instructions. It's exciting though as Intel hasn't been able to cross new barriers with CISC. RISC/ARM, RISC-V will one day help us to get massive core counts.
- byko3y 6y agoThat's a misleading information, because ARM binaries are actually smaller than similar x86 binaries. Here's a tcpdump example: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/254418/difference-between-size-of-binaries-x86-64-vs-arm https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/254418/difference-b... MIPS 32 bits -> 502.4K ARM 32 bits -> 718K Intel 32 bits (i386) -> 983K Intel 64 bits (x86_64) -> 1.1M
- dyingkneepad 6y agoI don't think RISC vs CISC matters as much as people think it does. Process technology, supply chain relationships, timing, market positioning and other aspects are much much more important. There's a lot of space to put gates in circuit these days.
- tobylane 6y agoIntel's x86_64 and AMD's amd64 are RISC underneath. Does that make everything in the mainstream RISC, just that most of it isn't exposed to the user? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5806589/why-does-intel-hide-internal-risc-core-in-their-processors https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5806589/why-does-intel-h...