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[sensationalized headline] AMD claims that ARM doesn't offer any advantage over x86, even in energy efficiency, as recent-gen APUs continue to prove (wccftech.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by MHLoppy@fedia.io to c/hardware@lemmy.world
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AMD has put its full faith in the x86 ecosystem, as the firm claims that the architecture is right on par with ARM.

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[–] Addv4@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Oh, so what phones use an x86 processor then?

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 13 points 3 weeks ago

The headline is a bit sensationalized, but it's the closest-to-the-original source that I found (the original being in German).

The original article's bit translated from German with DeepL (which is similar to what's in the WCCF tech article):

Both AMD Ryzen and Intel Core can offer extremely long battery life in notebooks while accessing the entire x86 ecosystem. Ultimately, there is no advantage for Arm in the overall package.

So it's not really a blanket statement, but a contextual one.

[–] sulfidedisburseangledafternoontipper@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 weeks ago

Early Zenphones circa 2014 - 2015 had X86 processors. I had one, it was neat. The dream of running legacy apps on a phone never materialized though.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is not a logical statement. Maybe x86 can be as efficient as arm or maybe it can't, but the fact phones don't use x86 is completely unrelated to the possibilities of the tech.

[–] Addv4@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not completely. I do remember when they tried to make x86 processors for phones, and I also remember how they very much failed to gain a foothold in part because android was more based around arm, but also because the power efficiency wasn't really as good as existing arm chips in phones. However, it is a pretty good testing point given that mobile devices like phones have to have the most efficient chips in order to have a decent battery life, and yet the interest in them more or less dried up years ago. And before you point at laptops or tablets, most of that advantage is mostly that windows on arm sucks both from efficiency and compatibility perspectives, so x86 is the only real option.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago

There isn't anything here that makes your original statement more than a useless pithy retort devoid of value.