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Re:Intel's Process Roadmap to 2025: with 4nm, 3nm, 20A and 18A? by stefan_ on Monday July 26, 2021 @06:01PM (#27966037)
If architecture doesn't matter, why on earth would you think x86 is a negative. The most ARM can ever hope for is that people don't care or notice it's ARM.
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Re:Intel's Process Roadmap to 2025: with 4nm, 3nm, 20A and 18A? by AnimalMuppet on Monday July 26, 2021 @08:09PM (#27967089)
Energy efficiency is a thing that some people (including phone manufacturers) care about.
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Re:Intel's Process Roadmap to 2025: with 4nm, 3nm, 20A and 18A? by cbsmith on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @05:28PM (#27977890)
As much as ARM is associated with efficiency, the instruction set itself is largely irrelevant to the performance of modern CPUs. x86s CPUs are translating x86 instructions into the CPU's native instruction set, and while that used to impose some non-trivial overhead, it's been trivial for quite some time.
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