Subj : Re: Operating Systems
To   : Nightfox
From : tenser
Date : Fri Apr 12 2024 12:05 am

On 10 Apr 2024 at 06:16p, Nightfox pondered and said...
 
 Ni> That's probably true.  I just hope there will still be a way to build
 Ni> your own desktop PC - That offers the best way to customize your own
 Ni> computer, and I've always enjoyed doing that.  I'd be disappointed if
 Ni> all computers basically become a closed box that you can't customize or
 Ni> upgrade, and would be forced to buy a whole new computer if you just
 Ni> need more RAM, a faster processor, etc..

I suspect that will be the case for power users.  Simply plugging
the various components in shouldn't be something that's restricted
just to OEMs.

 Ni> Also, I hope ARM-based computers would still be as performant (or more)
 Ni> for intensive computing tasks, such as video processing, photo editing,
 Ni> gaming, etc..  Though I imagine that will be the case.

They already are!  Apple's M-series chips are very fast, certainly
on par with desktop x86 parts.  On the high-end, Altera's core IPes
are used in a number of de novo systems; Google just launched an
offering there (I presume for GCP; they've been using ARM for their
internal services for several years now).  And of course Amazon has
Graviton, et al.  I'm sure MSFT has something coming.  The Chinese
players seem to be mostly leaning towards RISC-V, though; SiFive is
saying they're going to unleash a high-end processor sometime later
this year (if only they'd chosen a better page table format...sigh).

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
 * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

.