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Honestly, ARM is fine. They're no longer the only game in town, but they've still got a huge head start.

• snvzz 5y ago
  They'll be fine if they focus on their microarchitectures rather than the ISA (where IMHO they've already lost), and make the process for obtaining a license much more streamlined; I've heard it takes no less than 18 months of long negotiations to license anythin from ARM. That's not sustainable now that there's competition.
  • duskwuff 5y ago
    That's already where their focus is. Most of ARM's customers are licensing specific cores from ARM, not the ISA as a whole.
  • klelatti 5y ago
    > where IMHO they've already lost Given M1, Graviton etc etc that’s a bold statement.
    • snvzz 5y ago
      High performance implementations are possible even with bad ISAs, given enough resources. x86-64 is much worse than ARM. It's a literal clusterfuck. And yet. A high performance implementation of ARM, which is a much better ISA than x86-64, was something expected to happen sooner or later. It did not surprise me.
      • klelatti 5y ago
        Fair enough but I’m still not sure why you think the Arm ISA has ‘lost’?