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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