#8: CPU wars: Intel vs. AMD vs. ARM

Syscast Podcast by Mattias Geniar

In this new episode of Syscast, I talk to Jan Somers for a deep-dive into CPUs. We discuss Intel vs. AMD and what the role and future of ARM might be.

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Show topics

In this episode, we discuss:

• The inception of Intel & AMD
• The x86 instructionset
• Production sizes (nm) and sockets
• Hyperthreading in Intel and AMD
• Pipelines: core count vs. clockspeeds
• Introducing ARM CPU’s
• The ARM CPU doesn’t exist (😱)
• Jan’s hardware rabbit holes
• The future of CPU’s

Additional shownotes

• Hardware info, news & reviews: anandtech.com
• Jan’s favorite hardware reviewers: @iancutress
• Jan on Twitter is @j_somers

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