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Intel doesn’t think that Arm CPUs will make a dent in the laptop market (arstechnica.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Windows has nothing to do with it. They are talking about software applications that were made for x86. Stuff like Adobe CC, etc.

Windows runs on ARM (and has for a decade) and the apps available in the Windows app store run on ARM.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Apple has shown that the market could be willing to adapt.

But then again, they’ve always had more leverage than the Wintel-crowd.

But what people seem to ignore is that there is another option as well: hardware emulation.

IIRC correctly old AMD CPU’s, notably the K6, was actually a RISC core with a translation layer turning X86 instructions into the necessary chain of RISC instructions.

That could also be a potential approach to swapping outright. If 80% of your code runs natively and then 20% passes this hardware layer where the energy loss is bigger than the performance loss you might have a compelling product.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Apple has shown that the market could be willing to adapt.

It's less that they'll adapt, and more that they don't really care. And particularly in the case of Apple users: their apps are (mostly) available on their Macs already. The vast majority of people couldn't tell you what architecture their computer runs on and will just happily use whatever works and doesn't cost them the earth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I didn’t mean the customers, but sure.

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