Alpha and PA-RISC died before the smartphone revolution (end 90s vs mid 00s). x86-32 killed them, before AMD64 (x86-64) took off. Laptops were all x86-32/64. T

Alpha and PA-RISC died before the smartphone revolution (end 90s vs mid 00s). x86-32 killed them, before AMD64 (x86-64) took off. Laptops were all x86-32/64. There has been an UltraSPARC laptop (one AFAIK), and Apple switched away from POWER because of power inefficiency. Also before the smartphone revolution. Intel was busy with Moblin and PowerTOP back in the 00s. This before iPhone. MIPS and RISC-V also exist. Without ARM it would've happened but slower/later.