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Does anyone know if the Framework team plan to offer an ARM based mainboard? I'm honestly not even sure that there are any good ARM based SoCs to make a laptop
by jai_ 4y ago
Does anyone know if the Framework team plan to offer an ARM based mainboard?
I'm honestly not even sure that there are any good ARM based SoCs to make a laptop mainboard from, but given what we've seen from Apple's development of their iPhone chips being integrated into laptop and desktop, I wonder if something similar could be done with other existing ARM CPUs from Samsung or Nvidia?
- jarbus 4y agoI'm also interested in this, mainly for the battery life improvements.
- wmf 4y agoI doubt they'll offer ARM, but the RK3588 is designed for laptops and not embarrassingly slow (about 3x the performance of an RPi 4).
- CameronNemo 4y agoThe mt8192 is faster than the rk3588 and already shipping in Chromebooks. Plenty of activity on the linux-mediatek mailing list to mainline support for the currently shipping Chromebooks. mt8195 Chromebooks should appear soon too, and they are even faster than the mt8192. Mainlining activity is also occurring for this SoC.
- CameronNemo 4y agoDo any ARM SoCs support USB4 (apart from Apple Silicon)? IIRC that is the main reason they cited for not shipping AMD boards.