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AMD actually did this in the distant past with the original 32-bit Athlons. They used the DEC Alpha EV6 bus from the 21264 microprocessor. It would be interest
by chasil 5y ago
AMD actually did this in the distant past with the original 32-bit Athlons.
They used the DEC Alpha EV6 bus from the 21264 microprocessor. It would be interesting to have seen DEC StrongARM adapted to the same bus, and a single motherboard able to run any of these CPUs with the right BIOS.
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- leeter 5y agoOther than BIOS/UEFI as far as I know nothing is stopping them from using existing chipsets/motherboards. I don't recall anything on the chipset itself being inherently tied to x86 per se. I think even port IO is handled in the SOC/microcode these days. So they could probably do it. Particularly if they reused things like the AMD IO die etc. No need to reinvent the wheel because the cores are different.
- tmzt 5y agoUEFI is also ported to ARM64 and officially supported by Windows on compatible boards.