ARM CPUs as Fast As Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2016-05-06
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1,049 words · ~5 min read
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when you hear the term CPU you probably think of a microprocessor from Intel or
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AMD that sits in your desktop or laptop computer but in the connected age there
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are a lot of devices from smartphones
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and tablets to fancy Android game consoles to even things like anti-lock
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brakes and web connected door locks that
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also need processors with many of them powered by specialized CPUs based on
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technology from a company called ARM so
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what exactly is an ARM CPU and why don't you have one in your PC as well well the
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PC processor scene has long been dominated by chips using an instruction
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set called x86 originally developed by
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Intel and only fully licensed out to a
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couple of other manufacturers including AMD ARM doesn't have the correct
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licenses to design x86 processors and it's unlikely that Intel will be
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allowing anyone else to do so in the near future given they even amended
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their cross- licensing agreement with AMD to prevent it from transferring to a
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third party if AMD gets acquired which is a bummer because x86 is super awesome
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for some workloads with high-end core i7 chips able to handle complex
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instructions that tell the processing course to do a lot of things at once an
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ARM CPU by contrast is optimized for
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simpler instructions that are closer to the metal than x86 so the processor
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doesn't have to to do as much sorting and arranging to get to the actual meat
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of the work think of it like trying to help your buddy move Apartments if he
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dumps a huge pile of dirty dishes and disassembled Ikea furniture in front of
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you and tells you all at once what to do with it that's a lot of fraking work to
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remember what he said and then actually do it well that's what x86 can do but if
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he's a reasonable person and has all his stuff laid out neatly for you once you
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get there and tells you as you go where he wants everything stored you'll
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probably have a much easier time of it
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just like you'll expend less energy in the second scenario an ARM CPU also uses
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much less energy than a typical x86 processor which is monumentally
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important for preserving battery life in
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mobile devices these Energy savings can be seen in an ARM CPU's drastically
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reduced heat output as well about 15
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times less than your average cor i7 which you could probably an egg on if
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you weren't using a heat sink so while x86 is superior for heavy workloads not
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to mention that it's continued use enables backwards compatibility with
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games and apps that were written decades ago for devices that perform only
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simpler tasks and whose app development was mostly done in the last half a dozen
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years like smartphones ARM is perfect
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okay line is cool but while you've mentioned ARM and cell phones together a
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lot I thought most cell phones use apple a series or qualcom Snapdragon
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processors ah well ARM doesn't actually
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make their own chips at all instead other companies buy designs from arms
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engineers and integrate them into their own products sometimes even modifying
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them sometimes significantly for specific purposes as Apple has been
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known to do giving them the flexibility to build the CPU around their devices
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design rather than the other way around a Paradigm shifting change but what does
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the future hold for arms technology Microsoft's Surface RT series tablets
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demonstrated that it's unlikely to replace x86 in Windows PCS anytime soon
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but as it continues to improve power sipping devices will get closer and
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closer to the functionality of your desktop not to mention that app
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compatibility will improve and we're even starting to see ARM appear in
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servers so Google doesn't have to work quite so hard to cool off their server
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suggestions for future fastest possible and I think that's pretty much it I'll
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see you guys next time