Jim Keller is confident that Ascalon will have performance close to zen5 when it is finished later this year. Chips in hand could be some than a lot of people seen to think.
> The predictions put Tenstorrent's upcoming CPU core comfortably ahead of Intel's Sapphire Rapids (7.45 points), Nvidia's Grace (7.44 points), and AMD's Zen 4 (6.80 points). Yet, AMD's Zen 5 is projected to hit 8.84 points, making it the absolute integer performance champion in 2024 – 2025.
I absolutely do not believe it. Until independent reviewers can test the new Ascalon processor, these numbers are just fantasy.
Beautiful thing about Windows computers is that it's generally not too hard to make them into linux/BSD/etc computers. :)
Qualcomm [1] and some vendors [2][3] are making progress towards linux support though.
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-ARM-Changes
[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASUS-Vivbook-S-15-Elite-X-Linu...
[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/TUXEDO-Snapdragon-X-Elite