Other project, that is not ARM based, but Instead PowerPC based is the They seem each time closer to get a pcb design, for the Slimbook Eclipse laptop chassisīut its a laptop around 1500€( also a bit expensive. It seems they will attempt something with RISCV in mind, but they don't rule out a ARM cortex-a7x version. Indeed maybe mnt reform is the most open of them all( the price seems to go up when you talk of openess. I wonder what the most recent, fastest processor type that you can get without having any remote backdoors/blobs is with 4gbs of ram or more obviously and if possible LPDDR4, If it can handle an emulator like desmume and palemoon or two emulators and palemoon, than it would probably be good enough for me till they get a better processor. Imx8m might be the way to go for me then. nvidia just aquired arm, so we'll have to see what happens because of that. This ARM processors are affected by Spectre and/or Meltdown, as they employ the technologies that makes the exploit possible, that already happen in rk3399 for example( 2xA72 )Įverything above Cortex a55, and you have lots of vulnerabilities. Well the next devices to expect are like the Rockchip RK3588, 8nm, 4xA76 + 4xA55, its around 30-40% better than the rk3399, which should be ok, for a decent laptop.īut probably we will not see then tile 2021 or 2022 sadly. I wonder if I should wait on balthazar.space' idea of a laptop. I will have time to ponder long after this. Till Risc-V comes out with something as fast as intel's p8600 or faster.Īnyways, I am pondering stuff right now. Why? Well no meltdown spectre vulnerabilities for them. I wonder if any processors based on A76 or A77 will be liberated in maybe 5-10 years of their blobs. It has all the connectivity modern hardware has, and its a lot more performant than a ARM cortex a53, by far. Yes, this processor in cause, is not as powerful as 7nm x86_64 launched recently, but it is the best performance/Open/Cost option available at the moment by far. Well, actually PowerPC is one of the newest arch's around, created initially in the 90's, and its a open arch, even NXP gave permission to fully open documentation to the project It is part of the Open Power Community. PowerPC ( PPC64?) is old and slow and doesn't really compare with the current 7nm x86_64 AMD processors. Until someone else develops something more secure. actually arm is more now related, but Risc-V is the future period. Servers it might be good for, but all else. If I cannot use it on a laptop, and if its that heavy, no use for me. You see, before you why I do not trust openpower for the foreseeable future. POWER9 ( pp64el) and perhaps POWER10 both compete on performance, if not price, and Raptor offer fully free (as in speech) desktops: īut with a TDP in excess of 90W (!) I don't think we'll see any laptops based on that ISA. The RISC-V laptop from Balthazar looks interesting but all RISC-V implementations are focused on power efficiency rather than performance so the same would apply to those. Other project, that is not ARM based, but Instead PowerPC based is the PowerPC ( PPC64?) is old and slow and doesn't really compare with the current 7nm x86_64 AMD processors.
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