AMD Could Enter ARM Market with Sound Wave APU Built on TSMC 3nm Process

Re:AMD Could Enter ARM Market with Sound Wave APU Built on T... by high_na_euv on Friday October 31, 2025 @08:37AM (#45771357)

>More than forcing volumes, Apple proved it was worth it because the efficiency gains were huge. If AMD had release a SoC with numbers close to the M1 before Apple targeting the server market, they had a very good shot at it being a success and leveraging that to success in the laptop markets where Microsoft would have loved to have a partner ready to fight Apple and had to wait for Qualcomm for ages.

Apple proved that creating your own high end consumer SoC was doable and viable idea due to TSMC and could result in better chips due to designing them around your needs.

And which ISA they could use? X86? Hard to say, probably no. So they had RISCV and ARM

Also about Windows...

If PantherLake on 18A actually performs as good as expected, then why would anyone move to ARM on Windows when viable energy eff. cpus like lnl and ptl are available

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Re:AMD Could Enter ARM Market with Sound Wave APU Built on T... by StopDisinfo910 on Friday October 31, 2025 @08:42AM (#45771394)

> If PantherLake on 18A actually performs as good as expected, then why would anyone move to ARM on Windows when viable energy eff. cpus like lnl and ptl are available

Well yes, exactly, that’s the issue with arriving 10 years later instead of being first mover. The rest of the world doesn’t remain unmoving.

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Re:AMD Could Enter ARM Market with Sound Wave APU Built on T... by dagmx on Saturday November 01, 2025 @01:19AM (#45779432)

RISC-V wasn’t a thing when Apple started designing their own chips. It was always going to be ARM. Look who founded ARM after all…

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