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ARM is not a magic bullet but the M1 stems from the trend of phone processors growing up to be competitive in the PC market. Since almost (all?) mobile phones
by sharikous 5y ago
ARM is not a magic bullet but the M1 stems from the trend of phone processors growing up to be competitive in the PC market.
Since almost (all?) mobile phones use ARM I can see a similar process of adapting other ARM processors to the PC market.
But of course Apple is so far ahead that we really don't know wether and when there will be a competitive alternative, so it may as well be a streamlined x64, or a new ISA, sure.
It seems to all depend on some very experienced CPU design teams and it seems that actually Apple lost some of them in the last year, I would track these news to get a better model of predicting the future than the ARM/x64 divide.