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The corollary is the same thing happening which caused Apple to move to the Intel CPUs, basically, Motorola being unable to squeeze more performance out of it.
by jsymolon 5y ago
The corollary is the same thing happening which caused Apple to move to the Intel CPUs, basically, Motorola being unable to squeeze more performance out of it.
On the other hand, with the volume of units that IBM Compatibles had, it may have allowed more resources to push that boundary.
- rbanffy 5y ago> it may have allowed more resources to push that boundary. For a long time, x86 was a joke when compared to PPC. As it was compared to 68K’s right up to the 68040. And, as such things go, it was until it wasn’t. Now, the tables have turned and ARM is proving easier to tweak into higher performance designs.