Good point about keeping old #hardware going longer, specifically #laptops https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/de.. The article claims that the humble #cpu will double speed again in something like 16 years! Looks like the bottom of the CPU market is about to fall out.
The #intel #spectre mitigations for their crappy #cpu design are causing all sorts of optimization problems: https://robert.ocallahan.org/2021/06/spe.. The 'solution' is to execute *more* instructions in #userspace as there is a serious cost for each #systemcall ! Intel are really being punished for this now thought, as I posted recently #amd is eating their lunch because of this.
Interesting, #amd are looking to replace #intel 's X86 #cpu #architecture https://www.extremetech.com/computing/32.. Apparently it boils down to just being another #biglittle design, but is still pretty exciting.
Damn, #amd is overtaking #intel in #cpu share: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/market_shar..
Looks like #pine 's new #quartz 64 #arm #cpu is finally available in the store: https://pineguild.com/the-quartz64-is-no.. Personally I need to stop spending money and I'm still pretty mad about the #pinetab killing its own #wifi doing absolutely nothing, getting zero interest from #pine ...
Wow, #code that was *not* run caused the #xbox 360 to crash due to #speculative computation, one of the issues also behind the #spectre #intel #cpu #bug https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/0.. Very impressive #debug process!
Very nice #opensource #cpu - I want one! https://github.com/stnolting/neorv32 In theory it should be *just about* fast enough to run #linux - although it doesn't appear to have a #mmu as of yet.