Qualcomm Takes on Apple: The Battle For Chip Speed
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In this episode we dive into the how Qualcomm is looking to be a new challenger to both Apple and Intel. This was thanks in part to a purchase of the firm Nu...

Qualcomm brought a company named Nuvia, which are ex-Apple engineers that help designed the M series Apple silicon chips to produce Oryon which exceeds Apple’s M2 Max in single threaded benchmarks.

The impression I get is than these are for PCs and laptops

I’ve been following the development of Asahi Linux (Linux on the M series MacBooks) with this new development there’s some exciting times to come.

  • 👁️👄👁️English
    201·
    8 months ago

    Would definitely upgrade to that instead of my current Lenovo. I want x86 to die already.

    • Semperverus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      271·
      8 months ago

      If you want to kill x86, you need to do what Valve and the Wine foundation did with Proton/WINE (mostly proton at this point though), but for x86 to ARM and maybe other architectures like RISCV (especially because the milkV pioneer is a thing).

      There is too much legacy software that will never be converted that people still use to this day. Once you make it easy to transition, it will slowly but steadily start to happen.

      Box86/Box64 are promising, but need help from contributors like you. If you want it to happen, go make it happen, or continue to live in the world you have now.

      • KseniyaK@lemmy.ca
        5·
        8 months ago

        Well, you do have qemu, which can run x86 programs on other architectures (not just running x86 virtual machines on top of hosts of other architectures).

        • Chobbes@lemmy.world
          2·
          8 months ago

          My experience running arm on x86 with qemu was dog slow. This was years ago, though, so hopefully it has gotten better.

      • 👁️👄👁️English
        62·
        8 months ago

        Well legacy software is fine, that stuff mostly runs on old machines/servers/etc. ARM will be more easily to move towards by focusing the consumer market, where legacy issue is less of an issue because their programs are frequently updated. Some old server using outdated software that people are afraid to touch, we don’t need to worry about converting that lol.