> So, tiling wasn’t a good choice for PCs and workstation, but as mentioned, ideal for power starved mobile devices. It's fascinating to me how some technologi

> So, tiling wasn’t a good choice for PCs and workstation, but as mentioned, ideal for power starved mobile devices. It's fascinating to me how some technologies that seemed at one time like also-rans suddenly became hugely relevant when mobile became A Thing. ARM, for instance, started out in the mid-'80s aimed at the desktop market (the "Acorn RISC Machine": see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Computers#New_RISC_architecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Computers#New_RISC_archi...), got clobbered when the market coalesced around Wintel, and simply to survive retreated to one of the few niches where their chips had a clear advantage over Wintel's: applications that required low power consumption. That was a tiny market for a long time, but then mobile became A Thing and Intel, who were focused as they always had been on performance over efficiency, missed the shift completely. So ARM, which had been diligently focusing on efficiency for years, went from being a footnote to history to being one of the key architectures of modern computing.