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by priyanmuthu 1708 days ago
Wasn't there a rumor that AMD was creating ARM chips? It will be great if we have ARM versions of EPYC chips.
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I'd love to see someone do a serious desktop RISC-V processor.
They were, but have stopped talking about that for years. The project is probably canceled; I've heard Jim Keller talk about how that work was happening simultaneously with Zen 1.
AMD's equivalent of the Intel Management Engine (ME) is based on ARM, I think.

Intel used to use "ARC" cores, but recently converted to and i486.

This is the ARM core that lives inside AMD Xen:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Proces...