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Imagine what could have been if Intel wouldn't have sold XScale back in 2006 and kept focusing on ARM
by bluedino 5y ago
Imagine what could have been if Intel wouldn't have sold XScale back in 2006 and kept focusing on ARM
- MangoCoffee 5y agoARM is not end all and be all. x86 still have a big market share
- neogodless 5y agoThat's one way to put it! I'm not finding any comprehensive sources, but here's an example: https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/12/apple_arm_m1_intel_x86_market/ https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/12/apple_arm_m1_intel_x8... > Arm's market share in PC chips was about eight per cent during Q3 this year, climbing steadily from seven per cent in Q2, and up from only two per cent in Q3 2020, before Arm-compatible M1 Macs went on sale. ARM is very much on the rise, but also still in the single digits, leaving plenty for x86. https://futurecio.tech/intel-losing-share-to-amd-and-arm/ https://futurecio.tech/intel-losing-share-to-amd-and-arm/ > 5% of the servers shipped in the third quarter of 2021 had an Arm CPU
- stefan_ 5y agoWhat exactly would have been? There is no inherent superiority in the ARM architecture. Hell, 2006 ARM is a trash architecture. They just happened to be the only vendor that cared about that niche, and then the niche stopped being niche.