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Re:Arm Unveils Next-Gen Flagship Core: Cortex-X3 by rbanffy on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @11:26AM (#31921521)
They are the top performing ARM computers you can go to a store and buy. I'd love to have an HPE Ampere or a POWER tower under my desk, but it's not easy to get anything like those, and certainly not for a price competitive with generic x86.
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Re:Arm Unveils Next-Gen Flagship Core: Cortex-X3 by NikolaNovak on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @11:57AM (#31921981)
Are we confusing things?

They're both RISC, but P9/P10/etc is based on IBM's own Power microarchitecture (possibly open sourced / open standard), I wasn't aware it had anything to do with Arm? I could be hopelessly wrong...

Or do you mean something different with "POWER"?

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Re:Arm Unveils Next-Gen Flagship Core: Cortex-X3 by mhh__ on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @03:08PM (#31924424)
Owning an IBM Power system is a daydream of many nerds apparently.

And power is open in that the ISA is open. Power10 is a bang up to date CPU so the internals are all closed.

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Re:Arm Unveils Next-Gen Flagship Core: Cortex-X3 by rbanffy on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @04:04PM (#31925074)
There are other interesting ISAs that are not arm64. Sadly, the only ones that still could be viable desktop (more like deskside) are either server-grade ARM or IBM's POWER (and none of them makes Mac Minis).
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