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when you hear the term CPU you probably think of a micro processor from Intel or AMD that sits in your desktop or laptop computer but in the connected age there are a lot of devices from smartphones and tablets to fancy Android game consoles to even things like anti-lock brakes and web-connected door locks that also need processors with many of them powered by specialized CPUs based on technology from a company called arm so what exactly is an arm CPU and why don't you have one in your PC as well well the PC processor scene has long been dominated by chips using an instruction set called x86 originally developed by Intel and only fully licensed out to a couple of other manufacturers including AMD arm doesn't have the correct licenses to design x86 processors and it's unlikely that Intel will be allowing anyone else to do so in the near future given they even amended their cross-licensing agreement with AMD to prevent it from transferring to a third party if AMD gets acquired which is a bummer because x86 is super awesome for some workloads with high-end core i7 chips able to handle complex instructions that tell the processing cores to do a lot of things at once an arm CPU by contrast is optimized for simpler instructions that are closer to the metal than x86 so the processor doesn't have to do as much sorting and arranging to get to the actual meet of the work think of it like trying to help your buddy move apartments if he dumps a huge pile of dirty dishes and disassembled IKEA furniture in front of you and tells you all at once so what to do with it that's a lot of frigging work to remember what he said and then actually do it well that's what x86 can do but if he's a reasonable person and has all his stuff laid out neatly for you once you get there and tells you as you go where he wants everything stored you'll probably have a much easier time of it just like you'll expend less energy in the second scenario an arm CPU also uses much less energy than a typical x86 processor which is monumentally important for preserving battery life in mobile devices these energy savings can be seen in an arm CPUs drastically reduced heat output as well about 15 times less than your average core i7 which you could probably fry an egg on if you weren't using a heatsink so while x86 is superior for heavy workloads not to mention that its continued use enables backwards compatibility with games and apps that were written decades ago for devices that perform only simpler tasks and whose app development was mostly done in the last half a dozen years like smartphones arm is perfect ok line is cool but while you've mentioned arm and cell phones together a lot most cell phones use Apple a series or Qualcomm Snapdragon processors ah well arm doesn't actually make their own chips at all instead other companies buy designs from arms engineers and integrate them into their own products sometimes even modifying them sometimes significantly for specific purposes as Apple has been known to do giving them the flexibility to build the CPU around their devices design rather than the other way around a paradigm shifting change but what does the future hold for arms technology Microsoft's surface RT series tablets demonstrated that it's unlikely to replace x86 and Windows PCs any time soon but as it continues to improve power sipping devices will get closer and closer to the functionality of your desktop not to mention that app compatibility will improve and we're even starting to see arm appear in servers so Google doesn't have to work quite so hard to cool off their server farms speaking of cool your website could be cool if only you were using Squarespace they're simple powerful beautiful well that's just three words that Squarespace uses to describe themselves so why don't I break it down a little bit they offer 24/7 support via live chat and email that's part of the simple not to mention the interface is so easy that even I can make changes to our Squarespace site the powerful comes from well it's you know a super powerful tool to make your site also the back end is extremely powerful your Squarespace site pretty much can't go down even if you have a podcast that you know has like 6000 people watching it every week and you're like hey go to the Squarespace site boom it'll stay up and the beautiful part is that Squarespace looks great thanks to responsive design on any computer whether it's a TV computer or even a smartphone they've got all kinds of different templates you can have a store you can have a blog you can have a you know whatever you could have like a gallery of pictures of your dog wearing hats it doesn't matter the point is you can start a trial with no credit card required and start building your website today and plans start at only 8 bucks a month so when you decide to sign up for Squarespace use offer code Lynas to get 10% off your purchase Squarespace build it beautiful why is that in my notes that is a slogan 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