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by sufiyan 1379 days ago
I don’t get why other chip manufacturers don’t go this same route. For example AVX is done on the same core that also supports integer math. Many companies have a separate GPU but AVX seems to always come prepackaged.
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There is a cost to moving data to another chip(let). I think this is the main reason
Qualcomm most likely will go this route (proprietary instructions) as this now officially blessed by Arm. I'd bet we'll see that in their 2023 chips.
Isn't ARM suing Qualcomm?