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Re:Ask HN: Can competitors catch up to Apple Silicon? by rowanG077 on Monday July 04, 2022 @05:40PM (#31982033)
This is false. Apples arm chips are compatible with the normal arm instruction set. Evidenced by Linux trivially running on it.
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Re:Ask HN: Can competitors catch up to Apple Silicon? by mike_hearn on Monday July 04, 2022 @06:30PM (#31982400)
With AArch64 yes, but that's a relatively recent 'clean break' ISA. It's not an extension of Arm32.
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Re:Ask HN: Can competitors catch up to Apple Silicon? by whynaut on Monday July 04, 2022 @06:02PM (#31982194)
Well it’s an ARM chip. it’s still not backwards compatible..
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