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Judging by the PC's history of transitioning from 32-bit to 64-bit x86 (still not complete after 20 years), and from x86 to ARM (Windows on ARM is at 14% market
by comex 3y ago
Judging by the PC's history of transitioning from 32-bit to 64-bit x86 (still not complete after 20 years), and from x86 to ARM (Windows on ARM is at 14% market share after more than 10 years)… well. I'm just a bit skeptical.
Though to be fair, it all depends on the hardware. Windows on ARM struggled not just because it wasn't x86 but because nobody was making powerful-enough ARM processors. Now that those processors are starting to arrive, it's supposedly going to take off in the next few years. …Probably only on the low end, though. But you never know.
And RISC-V? Maybe someday.
- snvzz 3y ago>(Windows on ARM is at 14% market share after more than 10 years) Is it really that high? Where do these figures come from?
- Const-me 3y agoAccording to that research https://www.counterpointresearch.com/insights/arm-based-pcs-to-nearly-double-market-share-by-2027/ https://www.counterpointresearch.com/insights/arm-based-pcs-... 14% of laptops currently being sold have an ARM CPUs. However, 90% of them are Macbooks, which means the share of the ARM laptops which run Windows, Linux or ChromeOS is 1.4%.
- dingi 3y agoI don't think Win ARM market share is at 14%. Where did you get that stat?