Syscast Podcast by Mattias Geniar

Syscast Podcast by Mattias Geniar


#8: CPU wars: Intel vs. AMD vs. ARM

January 16, 2020

In this new episode of Syscast, I talk to Jan Somers for a deep-dive into CPUs. We discuss Intel vs. AMD and what the role and future of ARM might be.
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Show topics
In this episode, we discuss:

The inception of Intel & AMD
The x86 instructionset
Production sizes (nm) and sockets
Hyperthreading in Intel and AMD
Pipelines: core count vs. clockspeeds
Introducing ARM CPU’s
The ARM CPU doesn’t exist (