Intel is about to steal Arm's greatest advantage by adding 16 new general purpose registers, 3 operand instructions, and mov-pair instructions by 2026.What can they do about it? ARM is stuck with fixed-length 32-bit instructions and they've already allocated most of them, but Intel can just keep adding more to x86.Face it armbros, it's over.
>>107266487I thought ARM's greatest advantages were power use and heat.
>>107266510not anymore, you got intel thinkpads running on 19 hour battery life now
>>107266510Those are implementation advantages that partially followed from their previous ISA advantage. APX will significantly close that gap by reducing the number of x86 instructions needed to do the same thing.Also, Intel is bringing back AVX-512 at the same time, which Arm does not yet have an answer to. Arm's SVE is stuck at 128-bits on all but very high end server/supercomputer processors, and SME units are typically one per chip instead of per core.
