ARMv9: What is the Big Deal?

What is a Scalable Vector Extension? What does it mean to the industry and users? What is behind the jargon?

Erik Engheim
Level Up Coding
Published in
22 min readApr 3, 2021

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If you are a cellphone user, then you know ARM chips: they power your phone, and now they are powering the next generation Macs. They are also making major inroads into the server space.

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