Arm Announces Armv9 Architecture: SVE2, Security, and the Next Decade

Re:Arm Announces Armv9 Architecture: SVE2, Security, and the... by PragmaticPulp on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @09:49PM (#26642675)

Rasperry Pi is one of the faster SBCs on the market right now. It’s amazing that it’s as cheap as it is.

The sad reality is that the faster ARM cores don’t trickle their way into mainstream ARM SoCs very quickly. The fastest ARM chips go into cellular phones, set top boxes, and other mass produced electronic goods from vendors who can afford to implement them.

I hope this changes in the coming years as more chipmakers embrace mainline Linux and open source drivers instead of relying on the old models.

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Re:Arm Announces Armv9 Architecture: SVE2, Security, and the... by blihp on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @04:34AM (#26644822)

Unfortunately that doesn't seem very likely. None of the major vendors (including ARM itself) seem terribly concerned about the open source world. Given they're dealing in 100's of millions to billions of units and the open source world (currently) accounts for perhaps low 10's of millions (all time total!) it's understandable from a business standpoint.

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