"Fewer people care about the ISA" is one of Intel's "real problems". Intel having a near-monopoly on the x86 architecture is a lot less valuable than it used to

"Fewer people care about the ISA" is one of Intel's "real problems". Intel having a near-monopoly on the x86 architecture is a lot less valuable than it used to be. On the other hand, while it's true that languages and runtimes provide more portability these days, there's still important handwritten assembly, and the amount of investment in compiler implementations still gives popular ISAs an edge.