Never bet against x86
Chips and Cheese has an excellent deep dive into Arm's latest core design, and I have thoughts.
Arm now has a core with enough performance to take on not only laptop, but also desktop use cases. They’ve also shown it’s possible to deliver that performance at a modest 4 GHz clock speed. Arm achieved that by executing well on the fundamentals throughout the core pipeline. X925’s branch pre
https://www.osnews.com/story/144527/never-bet-against-x86/
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