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The Framework Laptop 13 is about to become one of the world’s first RISC-V laptops (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

ARM is load-store and has a relaxed ordering. Whereas x86 has instructions that can read straight from memory, and has Total Store Ordering. ARM also is fixed instruction width, where x86/AMD64 is variable instruction width. Outside of that the difference is mostly licensing.