Since I started writing software professionally over ten years ago x86 was the only instruction set that mattered outside of a few niche domains. Now it's all b

Since I started writing software professionally over ten years ago x86 was the only instruction set that mattered outside of a few niche domains. Now it's all but irrelevant in the fastest growing market. For those of us that have lived in the shadow of Wintel our entire professional lives the last few years have seen some dizzying changes. So the big picture for me is that developments in x86 are now minor news.