Re:Linus Torvalds on Why ARM Won't Win the Server Space
by nicoburns on Friday February 22, 2019 @04:24PM
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Apple's latest iPad processors are competitive with low-end laptop x86 processors. And they have a much stricter power budget than a laptop. If Apple wants to go this route, then they probably have the capability to build the chips to support it.
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Re:Linus Torvalds on Why ARM Won't Win the Server Space
by jecxjo on Friday February 22, 2019 @05:14PM
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The part you're discounting is just how resource intensive desktop apps are and how much optimization goes into iOS apps.
To really see the benefit of changing they would need to add a lot of cores, and then cross their fingers that 3rd party app developers know how to do true multi-core development.
Re:Linus Torvalds on Why ARM Won't Win the Server Space
by nicoburns on Sunday February 24, 2019 @04:24PM
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I don't know about that A-series chips are competive with low-end intel in single-threaded performance. And they keep getting faster each year.
If that team were to design a bigger core aimed at laptops, then I wouldn't be surprised if they could make it competitive.