qaz to HardwareEnglish · 3 days agoIntel licenses Atom-class x86 cores to startup, firm reportedly sharing RTL, enabling customer to build its own custom processors based on x86 general-purpose coreswww.tomshardware.comAquileo | external-linkAquileo | message-square11Aquileo | linkAquileo | fedilinkAquileo | arrow-up131Aquileo | arrow-down10
Aquileo | arrow-up131Aquileo | arrow-down1Aquileo | external-linkIntel licenses Atom-class x86 cores to startup, firm reportedly sharing RTL, enabling customer to build its own custom processors based on x86 general-purpose coreswww.tomshardware.comqaz to HardwareEnglish · 3 days agoAquileo | message-square11Aquileo | linkAquileo | fedilink
Aquileo | minus-squareMidnight WolfAquileo | linkAquileo | fedilinkEnglishAquileo | arrow-up7·3 days agoAs someone who had a machine with an Atom chip during the height of the netbook phase: [whoa, this is worthless] meme
Aquileo | minus-squarecmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deAquileo | linkAquileo | fedilinkEnglishAquileo | arrow-up5·3 days agoThey aren’t worthless, they are just much more suited for low power embedded systems rather than a general purpose PC.
Aquileo | minus-squareanotherandrew@lemmy.mixdown.caAquileo | linkAquileo | fedilinkEnglishAquileo | arrow-up8·3 days agoThere are vanishingly few use cases where an anemic x86 would be a better choice than almost any ARM or RISC-V system. So perhaps not worthless, but close to it.
As someone who had a machine with an Atom chip during the height of the netbook phase: [whoa, this is worthless] meme
They aren’t worthless, they are just much more suited for low power embedded systems rather than a general purpose PC.
There are vanishingly few use cases where an anemic x86 would be a better choice than almost any ARM or RISC-V system.
So perhaps not worthless, but close to it.