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jauntywundrkind • yesterday at 11:24 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

I'm so glad we are finally seeing small cores, something to threaten the Cortex A7, which harkens back to 2011!!

But also: Cortex A35 is from 2015! And it's still just a trickle of these small application processor cores. Having a MMU enables so much more. Look at what Baochip and Xous are doing, with small cores but with MMU, for radically better interesting OS / systems architectures.

It just feels so cursed, is so beyond my surprise here well past half way through 202X that so many cores from early 201X are still not just alive but utterly dominant. Something has gone super super super wrong in the House of ARM!