Perhaps we'll get a big shift towards more ARM processors soon? "Performance per watt" was big in Jobs' pitch of the move from Power PC to Intel Core. The 808

Perhaps we'll get a big shift towards more ARM processors soon? "Performance per watt" was big in Jobs' pitch of the move from Power PC to Intel Core. The 8086 was released in 1978, and 31-year-old bytecode still runs on Intel's newest x86 chips. The only thing that's stayed more constant for 3 decades is the rotational frequency of disk platters.