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Imagine Linux on an Arm SoC that benchmark better than Apple's M2 Max! (youtu.be)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I'd expect them to start around 1k. Not many people are going to be buying these devices so there's no economies of scale.

Also I love how qualcomm announced this CPU and a day later Apple releases the M3 which is finally a real upgrade from the M1.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

1k like the Macbook air or 1k with actually good memory and storage specs?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

or gasp something mildly modular you can upgrade if you need to.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Lots of tech companies might be interested. For example, at my work we are now stuck half way between x64 and arm, both on the server side and on the developers side (Linux users are on x64 and Mac users are on arm). While multiarch OCI/docker containers minimize the pains caused by this, it would still be easier to go back to a single architecture.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Qualcomm chip won't be binary compatible with Apple chips, so nothing will change for you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

If you build a docker image on an ARM Mac OS with default settings it will happily run on Linux on ARM, the same for a Go app compiled with GOOS="linux", for example. Of course you can always fix the issues that pop up by also specifying the architecture, but people often forget, and in the case of docker it has significant performance penalties.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

I’m sure Qualcomm knew what they were doing