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submitted 11 months ago by corbin@infosec.pub to c/technology@lemmy.world

2024 might be the breakout year for efficient ARM chips in desktop and laptop PCs.

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[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml -1 points 11 months ago

How long before indie devs can make their own custom processor chips?

[-] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago

Now? FPGAs have been a thing for decades and are the closest thing I can see to getting custom chips made without massive investments.

[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml -1 points 11 months ago

Yup. But was thinking more of ultra-small-run ARM or RISC-V processors. Be cool if we ever get there.

[-] stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 11 months ago

You can build a risc core using an fpga. Plenty of people have done that.

Performance will probably be an issue.

[-] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

do you know how a CPU is designed? it's just crazy hard to study the design of simple RISC CPUs we studied in college. And those were very simple, old processors.

A modern processor with performance that can match modern CPUs is no task for one indie dev, at all.

You need a team of professionals in the field, a huge budget and the technology to manufacture it, which you would probably end outsourcing to one of the big manufacturers anyway because it's very rare.

So the answer to your question is never, unless you're expecting low performance CPUs based on FPGAs.

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