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I disagree. There was ARM which would have taken over the mantle. And given the recent wins of M1 just due to abilty to decode instructions better, x86 would ha
by whatisyour 4y ago
I disagree. There was ARM which would have taken over the mantle. And given the recent wins of M1 just due to abilty to decode instructions better, x86 would have died much earlier.
- fanf2 4y agoAt that time (early 2000s) there wasn’t a high-performance ARM design. There had been StrongARM in the late 1990s, but it was sold by DEC to Intel, who killed it off. The designers moved to AMD to work on amd64.