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Re:AMD Could Enter ARM Market with Sound Wave APU Built on T... by ggm on Friday October 31, 2025 @04:28AM (#45769580)
Aside from lithography there's clever design. I don't think you can quantify that but it's not nothing.
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Re:AMD Could Enter ARM Market with Sound Wave APU Built on T... by eb0la on Friday October 31, 2025 @05:44AM (#45770093)
Actually power efficiency was a side effect of having a straightforward design in the first ARM processor. The BBC needed a cheap (but powerful) processor for the Acort computer and a RISC chip was When ARM started testing their processor, they found out it draw very little power...

... the rest is history.

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Re:AMD Could Enter ARM Market with Sound Wave APU Built on T... by delaminator on Friday October 31, 2025 @07:11AM (#45770718)
The BBC Micro had a 6502
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Re:AMD Could Enter ARM Market with Sound Wave APU Built on T... by iainmerrick on Friday October 31, 2025 @10:05AM (#45772122)
You're getting your history mixed up.

Acorn won the bid to make the original BBC home computer, with a 6502-based design.

Acorn later designed their own 32-bit chip, the ARM, to try to leapfrog their competitors who were moving to the 68000 or 386, and later spun off ARM as a separate company.

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