Exactly right. With today's transistor budgets, the x86 ISA decoder/translator is just noise. This is not the difference between x86 and ARM -- it's the diffe

Exactly right. With today's transistor budgets, the x86 ISA decoder/translator is just noise. This is not the difference between x86 and ARM -- it's the difference between Intel's team and Apple's (also AMD's). You don't see Qualcomm being competitive even though they also use ARM.