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Re:AMD Could Enter ARM Market with Sound Wave APU Built on T... by coredog64 on Friday October 31, 2025 @01:55PM (#45774791)
Microsoft already had an example of how to do this in a reasonable fashion. Not only that, but the original developer was an ARM licensee. And then finally, during that era Windows was still being developed for multiple architectures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FX!32

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Re:AMD Could Enter ARM Market with Sound Wave APU Built on T... by GeekyBear on Friday October 31, 2025 @05:05PM (#45776687)
That's a good example of a non-Apple processor transition where DEC's Alpha CPU performance was industry leading, and the compatibility layer for legacy software was solid.
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