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Intel licenses Atom-class x86 cores to startup, firm reportedly sharing RTL, enabling customer to build its own custom processors based on x86 general-purpose cores (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

As someone who had a machine with an Atom chip during the height of the netbook phase: [whoa, this is worthless] meme

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[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

They aren't worthless, they are just much more suited for low power embedded systems rather than a general purpose PC.

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[–] anotherandrew@lemmy.mixdown.ca 8 points 1 month ago

There are vanishingly few use cases where an anemic x86 would be a better choice than almost any ARM or RISC-V system.

So perhaps not worthless, but close to it.

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