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They mean in the markets that x86 is leading in, like desktop, mobile laptops, and server. The server market is particularly interesting as while ARM is gaining
by vlakreeh 4y ago
They mean in the markets that x86 is leading in, like desktop, mobile laptops, and server. The server market is particularly interesting as while ARM is gaining market share, it's mostly because Intel is losing market share because their products haven't been up to par in terms of performance per watt that AMD can provide.
- ZiiS 4y agoThey may not yet be dominant in those markets; but "by the time you can buy a system" is a bit of a stretch given you can walk out of a Apple store with a strong contender for the best Laptop or spin up the highest performance/$ EC2 A1 instances today.
- retrac 4y agoFor about 10 years after the introduction of microprocessors, legacy minicomputer platforms continued to sell on the high end. PCs were too small and slow and not enough IO. But the economy of scale made PC hardware incredibly cheap and it rapidly improved. They got bigger. Eventually, server-sized, competing with minicomputers, which did not have the backing of an architecture used at massive scale. Most servers ended up being based on up-scaled PC hardware, and the underlying architecture of servers (such as x86 processors) ended up reflecting that. I think the same may happen with smartphones/TVs/tablets/etc. Billions of these devices are sold each year, compared to perhaps tens of millions of high-end desktops or servers.