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Re:AMD Claims Arm ISA Doesn't Offer Efficiency Advantage ove... by tliltocatl on Monday September 08, 2025 @04:31PM (#45173559)
Nitpick: uncore and the fabrication details dominate the ISA on high end/superscalar architectures (because modern superscalar basically abstract the ISA away at the frontend). On smaller (i. e. MCU) cores x86 will never stand any chance.
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Re:AMD Claims Arm ISA Doesn't Offer Efficiency Advantage ove... by bpye on Monday September 08, 2025 @04:40PM (#45173683)
Not that it stopped Intel trying - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quark
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