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It wasn't even a tough prediction in 1995, 10 years after the first commercial RISC CPUs, and with PowerPC Apple Macintosh computers already in the hands of dev

It wasn't even a tough prediction in 1995, 10 years after the first commercial RISC CPUs, and with PowerPC Apple Macintosh computers already in the hands of developers. Did they end up beating Intel's financial might? Not in the end, but they kept them on their toes for a dozen years and very likely accelerated or changed Intel's plans in the process.

IcePic 2y ago
They made a serious attempt, especially when the G4 Mac was classified as "munitions". Quote: “The Power Mac G4 is so fast that it is classified as a supercomputer by the U.S. government, and we are prohibited from exporting it to over 50 nations worldwide.” - Steve Jobs
- brucehoult 2y ago
  That was because of Altivec, the best SIMD ISA (and implementation) for some time. Miles better than MMX or original SSE.
  - tucnak 2y ago
    IBM POWER is still Altivec afaik at least that's what my P9 is using
    - voxadam 2y ago
      POWER10 supports AltiVec too.
flohofwoe 2y ago
Not to mentioned being bombarded with "No RISC - No Fun" ads in computer magazines for the Archimedes 3000 (using an early ARM CPU) when Acorn tried to break the Amiga domination in Germany in the late 80s/early 90s ;) (e.g. 'RISC being the future' was already a popular meme in the late 80s - however competing with 'transputers being the future')