Arm Unveils Next-Gen Flagship Core: Cortex-X3

Re:Arm Unveils Next-Gen Flagship Core: Cortex-X3 by rbanffy on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @04:18PM (#31925213)

Binary compatibility is no longer a huge concern. By now only very old programs will require arm32 support and most current offers on any app store will have been recompiled for the latest and greatest (because software writers also want to look better on newer CPUs). Plus, if the new hardware is that much faster, you may not even need to pack native blobs.

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Re:Arm Unveils Next-Gen Flagship Core: Cortex-X3 by chasil on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @04:26PM (#31925317)

Of the Raspberry PIs, only the 3rd generation is capable of AArch64.

Because of this, very few Linux distros supporting the PI are 64-bit (Oracle Linux is the only one that comes to mind).

There does indeed remain a large AArch32 community that cannot move, and they will never, ever cross this gulf.

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Re:Arm Unveils Next-Gen Flagship Core: Cortex-X3 by evancox100 on Thursday June 30, 2022 @01:41AM (#31929018)

I highly doubt that ARM is making decisions for the Cortex X3 core design on the basis of the Raspberry Pi market

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Re:Arm Unveils Next-Gen Flagship Core: Cortex-X3 by rbanffy on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @06:07PM (#31926275)

A new chip not supporting arm32 does not prevent software for being built for the platform. While there are enough users, the distros will be maintained.

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Re:Arm Unveils Next-Gen Flagship Core: Cortex-X3 by ncmncm on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @06:22PM (#31926410)

Emulation ought to suffice for support of programs compiled for 32 bits.

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