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nasretdinovtoday at 12:08 PM5 repliesview on HN

Quite an odd thing for a British journal to pretend ARM doesn't exist...


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Aromasintoday at 12:20 PM

The author is a Dutch journalist with no technology background. I wouldn't jump to get my information from this source. As a person who works in the UK semiconductor industry, I noticed 4 or 5 glaring holes in the article in just the first couple of paragraphs.

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dijittoday at 12:18 PM

ARM is:

1) An ISA licensor, with no capability to create its own CPUs

and

2) Owned by Softbank in Japan, not European

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anonym29today at 12:29 PM

ARM has the exact same problem via TrustZone. Different technical implementation, slightly different known capabilities, but fundamentally, still an unauditable, unremovable ring -3 subsystem that cannot be controlled by the legitimate, lawful owner of the hardware.

hannobtoday at 12:19 PM

As far as cloud service servers are concerned, I don't think ARM CPUs have any meaningful marketshare, right?

You could start running things on ARM, but, almost certainly, that comes with a lot of extra friction. (Not saying that isn't a bad idea, it'd probably improve the ecosystem as a whole and flush out architecture-specific assumptions in server software. But it's not someting trivial to do.)

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