Linus Torvalds now favors Ampere Arm chip over Apple Silicon MacBook for building Linux kernels — says he's now doing more Arm64 Linux testing than ever
Linus Torvalds now favors Ampere Arm chip over Apple Silicon MacBook for building Linux kernels — says he's now doing more Arm64 Linux testing than ever
Ampere's powerful Arm CPUs give the developer a hand in Linux testing
The apple silicon architecture is really interesting, but its wasted on the company managing and producing the products built on it.
The biggest issue facing all silicon right now is CUDA. If you can't do ML acceleration, in a meaningful way that connects with existing architectures, its a nonstarter. I'm not sure what the solution is, but it isn't metal. We need a FOSS drop in replacement for CUDA similar to x86
Thoughts and prayers to Vosen, AMD, and ZLUDA.
I mean, there is OpenCL and AMD is actually compatible with lots of frameworks these days. It's not impossible, people just don't want to
Gabe and Linus have been moving on from Apple’s antics.
I look forward to a future where there is more ARM and RISC-V processors. Its probably gonna take sometime however
I've just lugged an Ampere AVA to a conference for a demo. It's a nice beefy machine and I think will finally be able to be a daily driver once I get it back home.
The real news here seems to be that Linus is going all in on ARM and now has an ARM based desktop workstation as well. He’s still using the MacBook.