Intel and AMD are working together to create an "x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group" along with others

[Remij 5,119]

Basically creating an x86 consortium which will help accelerate development and improve efficiency of the x86 platform for developers to combat ARM.

 

 

 

https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/technology/3123100-intel-amd-join-forces-to-counter-arms-rise

 

 

They're definitely feeling the heat from ARM, and now they've decided that it's better to work together to ensure that ARM doesn't completely overtake the industry.  This is a great thing and good that ARM is providing enough competition to push these companies to make the x86 platform better after all this time.

Edited October 15 by Remij

[Mr. Impossible 608]

WTF is ARM? 

[DynamiteCop 2,179]

1 hour ago, Mr. Impossible said:

WTF is ARM? 

[lynux3 2,507]

On 2024-10-15 at 5:12 PM, Remij said:

Basically creating an x86 consortium which will help accelerate development and improve efficiency of the x86 platform for developers to combat ARM.

 

 

 

https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/technology/3123100-intel-amd-join-forces-to-counter-arms-rise

 

 

They're definitely feeling the heat from ARM, and now they've decided that it's better to work together to ensure that ARM doesn't completely overtake the industry.  This is a great thing and good that ARM is providing enough competition to push these companies to make the x86 platform better after all this time.

It’s been a “competition” for years now, but hell, why not make it a visible one.

[MalaXmaS 716]

7 hours ago, Mr. Impossible said:

WTF is ARM? 

Something that doesn't exist in your dialect. 

[Remij 5,119]

17 hours ago, Mr. Impossible said:

WTF is ARM? 

It's a CPU Instruction Set Architecture (ISA).  You likely know Intel's and AMD's whose CPUs are "x86/x64" based, right?... well then you have ARM, which is based off of "RISC" (Reduced Instruction Set Architecture).

 

It's essentially the layer that interfaces software with the CPU... It basically defines how the CPU functions.  Both x86/64 and ARM function differently and use different instructions and thus aren't compatible.  You know how Nvidia and AMD have different graphics architectures and they require their own drivers to compile GPU agnostic code into machine code that each GPU can understand right?  But you ever noticed how Intel and AMD don't have to do that for CPUs?  That's because they share the same ISA and thus the code is already able to execute on both CPUs.  They both understand the same instructions.  x86/64 and ARM however are different, and so the software needs to be written specifically for each architecture

Edited Thursday at 08:49 PM by Remij