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AMD claims Arm ISA doesn't offer efficiency advantage over x86


During the IFA 2025 in Berlin, AMD hosted a media discussion, where one of the topics was the ongoing x86 vs. Arm debate. AMD has argued that x86 processors, both their own and Intel's SKUs, can offer competitively long battery life in the notebook form factor while maintaining the decades-old x86 s...

One of their main problems was that Android apps that used native code (not just bytecode) were impossible to run on them.Now look at why the ARM Windows laptops have such high return rates ... If Intel was offering cheap Itanium server chips from the satrt, AMD could be a small ARM designing team today, with it's X86 license expired long ego. Posted on Sep 8th 2025, 7:51 Reply#21sudothelinuxwizard GeofrancisThat is a really extreme example but fans do fail, thermal paste drys out, heatsinks get clogged with dust, and intel chips will just keep chugging along.

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