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0 pointsglogla4y ago0 comments

ARM in general is available. But good ARM is only in proprietary walled gardens.

Compare RaspberryPi or Snapdragon with Apple M1.

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b9a2cab54y ago· 2 in thread

You can buy Ampere Arm CPUs that are based on the same core as AWS Graviton2. And in general mobile CPUs are a generation ahead of server architecturally.

xxpor4y ago

Only in theory. Try to buy, as a consumer, a bare Ampere CPU right now. It's impossible.

imtringued4y ago

Mobile SoCs are mute, they don't have any meaningful ways to communicate with the outside world.

floatboth4y ago· 1 in thread

Apple M1 isn't in a proprietary walled garden, it's a general purpose computer like any good old x86 laptop. It's not designed with industry standards in mind and doesn't have any official documentation on internals, but it's not locked down in any way, and reverse engineering is solving the documentation problem already.

(Also Qualcomm Snapdragon is a far more cursed platform internally.)

oblio4y ago

This:

> Apple M1 isn't in a proprietary walled garden, it's a general purpose computer like any good old x86 laptop.

is functionally contradicted by this:

> It's not designed with industry standards in mind and doesn't have any official documentation on internals

And this:

> but it's not locked down in any way, and reverse engineering is solving the documentation problem already.

only improves things partially.

> (Also Qualcomm Snapdragon is a far more cursed platform internally.)

The TL;DR would be more that ARM in practice and SoCs for sure, suck. They're functionally their own little islands, compared to the PC.

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