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Is AMD completely out of the arm chip game? I know they had interest a few years back but seemed to abandon it. I’d really like an option to buy an arm cpu and motherboard from someone who will support it. Basically something in between a rpi and a MacBook. 400-500 with upgradable ram, storage, and gpu.

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At least for now AMD doesn't have anything ARM. There are ARM systems available but nothing anywhere close to that price range.

The Honeycomb LX2 is probably the closest thing to that currently, but it launched for $750 and has since gone up to around $920. Performance is not remotely competitive with x86 systems at that price point.

There are some systems based on the Ampere Altra chips, but nobody sells the motherboards/CPUs on their own and a full system will run you at least ~$6000.

Adlink sells an COM-HPC motherboard [0] and a corresponding Ampere Altra module [1].

[0] https://www.adlinktech.com/products/Computer_on_Modules/COM-... [1] https://www.adlinktech.com/Products/Computer_on_Modules/COM-...

Googling "ARM ATX motherboard" has some results, but these are so uncommon, everything's going to be an uphill battle.

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