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X86 may be mature but I think the M1 has shown that there is plenty of potential for improvement. I know M1 is ARM instead of RISCV, but there may yet be ways t
by tmtvl 4y ago
X86 may be mature but I think the M1 has shown that there is plenty of potential for improvement. I know M1 is ARM instead of RISCV, but there may yet be ways to get better chips.
That said, the hardware we have is really good, it's just the software side that is a complete garbage heap.
- smoldesu 4y agoApple Silicon was an interesting move when you look at it from a numbers perspective. The M1 is a really impressive chip, but AMD had competitive x86 hardware that was out on the 7nm node. It benchmarked ~10% slower (the 4800u did, at least), consumed more power (25w max vs 15w max) and ran equally as hot as M1, but it did make me wonder - could AMD have made an M1-class chip if TSMC sold them the 5nm silicon they needed? It's hard to say, and arguably the Zen process wasn't (and still isn't) competitive with Apple's process enhancement. Still though, AMD seems convinced that x86 can compete against modern RISC ISAs. They aren't far away from proving themselves right, honestly.
- wmf 4y agoM2 and Ryzen 7000U will both be on TSMC N5 with similar RAM, etc. It will be very interesting to see the comparisons.