Imagine Linux on an Arm SoC that benchmark better than Apple's M2 Max!

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Qualcomm Takes on Apple: The Battle For Chip Speed
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Qualcomm brought a company named Nuvia, which are ex-Apple engineers that help designed the M series Apple silicon chips to produce Oryon which exceeds Apple’s M2 Max in single threaded benchmarks.

The impression I get is than these are for PCs and laptops

I’ve been following the development of Asahi Linux (Linux on the M series MacBooks) with this new development there’s some exciting times to come.

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don't care about absolute performance, more interested in performance/watt

I'm more interested in something that has an actual hardware and software ecosystem. I'm no longer interested in soldering my computer and it's peripherals together.

"The real winner is the one who loses the most" indeed.