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The X86 vs ARM makes for such a great story.

One prefers locking and complicated instructions, the other is designed with open and simplicity.

At one point, Intel seemed to be dominant, and proven right with their proprietary tech, where as ARM chugged along keeping a low profile, and keep doing the good work. Now, finally the reality has caught up with them, and turns out openness and simplicity is finally taking a lead.

Stick to your principles FTW!!!

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How is ARM open? And simplicity is also subjective… x86 goes way back thats why it seems more complicated or “crufty”.

ARM is a huge corp like anyone else.

ARM got a huge boost now since everything is switching to mobile and their chips are more energy efficient than Intels. Added to that Intel was also asleep at the wheel and missed the mobile boat…

ARM chips are more energy efficient because they're simpler. Less gates/instructions = less power usage.

AMD's 128-core Zen4c chips are on par with ARM in per-core power usage, while offering higher performance per core.

Pretty sure ARM is proprietary.

I don't think it can get more proprietary than running your code on a machine that isn't accessible to the general public.

>running your code on a machine that isn't accessible to the general public.

What machine is this?

>One prefers locking and complicated instructions, the other is designed with open and simplicity.

It seems you're confusing ARM and RISC-V here.

ARM isn't simple, nor open.

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