Two Dialects of Silicon
For forty years x86 ruled desktops and data centres while ARM quietly took over every phone on Earth. Now the two meet head on. The complete illustrated guide to ARM64 and x86-64, from what an instruction set is to building software for both.
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Inside every computer, phone and server is a processor that speaks one of a few machine languages. For forty years, one of them, x86, ruled desktops, laptops and data centres, while another, ARM, quietly took over every phone on Earth. Now the two are meeting head on. Apple has moved every Mac to its own ARM chips. Windows laptops run on ARM. The world's biggest cloud builds its own ARM processors, and the company that designs ARM has begun to sell chips of its own. Meanwhile x86 has answered with new extensions and an alliance of former rivals. Which dialect should you care about, and why?
Book details
- Author
- Bex Calder
- Categories
- Computer Science
- Type
- Non-Fiction
- Format
- EPUB and PDF, DRM free
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 181
- Released
- 2026-09-25
- Catalogue code
- EQ-0276
