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Re: Today, 50 years ago

From	cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross)
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: Today, 50 years ago
Date	2026-04-15 16:13 +0000
Organization	PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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In article <10ro892$10a46$3@dont-email.me>,
Peter Flass  <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> wrote:
>On 4/15/26 06:11, Dan Cross wrote:
>> 
>> Apple Silicon is pretty nice, though I don't know about ARM.
>> The obvious alternative is RISC-V, but it was not mature enough
>> for use in a high-end product at the time they moved away from
>> Intel.
>
> From what I read, RISC-V still isn't quite there yet. I think the 
>performance is still below other chip families, but, of course, a lot of 
>engineering went into squeezing more performance out of, for example. 
>Intel. I expect RISC-V will soon be on par.

Yeah, this is true.  Some new chips are on the horizon that look
promising, but the ecosystem hasn't had nearly enough time to
mature as, say, ARM has had.

	- Dan C.

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