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The most exciting 2024 tech isn't AI (www.spacebar.news)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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2024 might be the breakout year for efficient ARM chips in desktop and laptop PCs.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is just a repeat of the same old pro-RISC myths from decades ago. There is very little performance difference between x86 and any RISC based CPU, at least when pertaining to the ISA itself. Apple merely has the advantage of having far more resources available for CPU development than their competitors.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Modern x86 is a CISC outer layer around a RISC inner core. It didn't hang on this long by ignoring RISC, but by assimilating it. RISC really did change everything, but not by the way everyone thought.