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The Fastest Arm PC in the World can finally play Cyberpunk
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this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2025
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Hey, that's an interesting laptop, thanks for sharing! One question about it if you don't mind. On the website, they position the notebook as "Open Hardware":
However, if I go to the details, I see that the CPU is an ARM Cortext-A76/55. That is not open is it? Not all sources are public for it, it's not modifiable or reproducible. Is the CPU an implied exception to their statement above? Are you aware of other "exceptions"? Or maybe I don't understand something? It does look this way though.
It's as open as humanly possible, is a better way of putting it. Indeed ARM CPUs aren't fully open. Also, depending on your particular compute module and options, other things aren't open, like GPU or Wifi driver binary blobs. But the non-open bits are listed when you configure the machine, if this is particularly important to you.
If you absolutely insist on 100% open, there's theKintex-7 FPGA compute module: you can do whatever you want with it and it'll be totally open. But the price is... fantastical. But hey, it exists if you have the money ๐
Holy Moly. You know your target audience when your specs say "100 MHz main clock oscillator" rather than "now with powerful 0.1 GHz CPU that can be pushed to >>>0.2 GHz<<< !!!๐ช"