qaz@lemmy.world to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-212 hours 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.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up127
arrow-up127external-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@lemmy.world to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-212 hours agomessage-square11fedilink
minus-squareMidnight Wolf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·11 hours agoAs someone who had a machine with an Atom chip during the height of the netbook phase: [whoa, this is worthless] meme
minus-squarecmnybo@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·11 hours agoThey aren’t worthless, they are just much more suited for low power embedded systems rather than a general purpose PC.
minus-squareanotherandrew@lemmy.mixdown.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·10 hours 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.