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Back in the day to be considered 'serious' Arm would have needed to compete on performance and that meant competing with Intel which they (primarily Robin Saxby
by klelatti 6y ago
Back in the day to be considered 'serious' Arm would have needed to compete on performance and that meant competing with Intel which they (primarily Robin Saxby) worked out was a losing strategy - so they didn't.
Then getting AArch64 onto the same CPUs as AArch32 meant in one bound they could cast off the legacy and start to compete on performance.
- mhh__ 6y agoI was more thinking along the lines of academia than market share - if you read a book like the dragon book or Muchnick's text, they clearly thought we'd all be on Alpha or some other RISC machine rather than ARM - even for teaching.
- klelatti 6y agoUnderstood. I suspect that Arm was a bit too off the mainstream for teaching (why talk about Thumb / Jazelle etc?). Plus probably better to teach for an architecture that had the performance cachet and where you could get some desktop machines.