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Re:What is wrong with all those AArch64 desktops? by leeter on Friday January 10, 2020 @05:36PM (#22016369)
It is actually, but it requires AMD or Intel to care. AMD could easily make an AArch64 CPU that is x570 compatible, it would require a BIOS update for sure but they could do it. There is nothing Physically stopping them from making a CPU with all the interconnect bits needed and a ton of AArch64 cores... other than there is really no fiscal incentive to do it.
Re:What is wrong with all those AArch64 desktops? by IntelMiner on Saturday January 11, 2020 @06:11AM (#22019317)
AMD did (briefly) sell ARM64 chips, the Optero A1100, aka "AMD Seattle" CPU

- 4 or 8 Cortex-A57 cores at 1.7 or 2Ghz

- support for up to 128 gig of either DDR3 or DDR4 memory

- 14 SATA 3 ports

- 2 10GbE ethernet ports

- 8x PCI-E 3.0

(EDIT: Fixed formatting, sorry!)

Re:What is wrong with all those AArch64 desktops? by cameron_b on Saturday January 11, 2020 @06:25AM (#22019353)
I regret not getting one of these when SoftIron was selling theirs