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Nope. X86 used to have majority market share. Now it’s a tiny fraction of the CPUs sold, and more and more businesses and use cases have adopted arm.x86 is dead. It just doesn’t know it yet. Why would anyone want to use a processor that is half the speed and burns four times as much power to achieve that?
frankly it makes me happy - the terrible cpu designers at Intel (they are very weak) have been riding the coattails of the brilliant fab folks forever, and it’s time for Intel to be punished for such ineptitude.
not to mention: consoles are dead, too. And so is “aaa game development.”
... when we switched to x86 architecture with terrible RISC architectures!!!!!
... and is not about to support the Apple Metal GPU !!!
P.S. ARM architecture be damned !!! STOP THE ARM!!
You know that throwing in more exclamation points doesn’t make your case stronger, right? It just makes it look like you don’t have any actual evidence to fall back on, so you’re resorting to bluster. Long strings of assertions with piles of exclamation points is not the same thing as reasoned arguments and actual data.
Even AMD is beating Intel parts in a lot of metrics right now, and Intel is using AMD's 64-bit code in Windows, so I don't think the future of x86 is "only with Intel", and we know that Intel has no presence in the mobile market either.
Nobody uses the Xeon for gaming - what type of alternate reality do you reside in?
i see what you're saying, and it makes a log of "logical" sense, but the other guy's got exclamation points, so I'm torn.
Wrong. Intel only had 81.25% of the PC market when the last numbers were released in March.
Intel Gains Market Share Over AMD In March: Survey
After months of ceding market share to rival Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMD), Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) is slowly and steadily clawing back, according to the results of the March Steam Hardware & Software survey.Intel's share of PC processors was at 81.25% in March compared to...
AMD is actually gaining market share though...
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Advanced Micro Devices is turning up the heat on this industry rivalry.
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ARM is an architecture. The individual companies (Apple, Qualcomm, Samsung, etc.) design processors based on that architecture. Your claim is disingenous and false.
Nope. X86 used to have majority market share. Now it’s a tiny fraction of the CPUs sold, and more and more businesses and use cases have adopted arm.x86 is dead. It just doesn’t know it yet. Why would anyone want to use a processor that is half the speed and burns four times as much power to achieve that?
frankly it makes me happy - the terrible cpu designers at Intel (they are very weak) have been riding the coattails of the brilliant fab folks forever, and it’s time for Intel to be punished for such ineptitude.
not to mention: consoles are dead, too. And so is “aaa game development.”
You're talking absolute nonsense!!!! Windows OS and other operating systems only supports x86 architecture!!! 95% in profesiional words supporting x86 architecture!!!
Perfectly!!! This is a huge number !!Wrong. Intel only had 81.25% of the PC market when the last numbers were released in March.
Intel Gains Market Share Over AMD In March: Survey
After months of ceding market share to rival Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMD), Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) is slowly and steadily clawing back, according to the results of the March Steam Hardware & Software survey.Intel's share of PC processors was at 81.25% in March compared to...finance.yahoo.com
AMD is actually gaining market share though...
AMD Is Poised to Gain Market Share in Race Against Intel | The Motley Fool
Advanced Micro Devices is turning up the heat on this industry rivalry.
That’s not true. Many operating systems support Arm. For example:
Windows OS: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/arm/
Android
iOS
iPadOS
Mac OS
Many varieties of Linux
Minix
Firefox OS
WebOS
Galileo
NetBSD
and dozens more.
And 100% of people in professional worlds use Arm.
His point is that your statement is like saying “Toyota Tercel is faster than trucks!”
it depends on the truck. If you are going to compare an architecture on the one hand to processors made by a specific company on the other hand, you are making a false comparison.
They did not have popularity and support due to ARM processor.!!!That’s not true. Many operating systems support Arm. For example:
Windows OS: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/arm/
Android
iOS
iPadOS
Mac OS
Many varieties of Linux
Minix
Firefox OS
WebOS
Galileo
NetBSD
and dozens more.
And 100% of people in professional worlds use Arm.
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Sure they do. Android is used on 39% of computing devices. Windows is only used on 36%. iOS is on 14%.
Right there, Arm outnumbers Windows by 17%. Windows on x86 is far less popular than Arm and Arm-based operating systems. Windows and x86 will be dead very soon. They cost too much. Burn too much power. They are ugly, poor designs. No taste at all. Arm is both technically superior, more popular, and is rapidly rising in market share compared to pitiful x86.
Not everyone can buy a Ferrari for 2 million
And in general, this is not a correct comparison, since AMD processors are weaker than Intel processors, but cheaper !!!
It's just your imagination!! Windows RTM is not so popular on ARM basedSure they do. Android is used on 39% of computing devices. Windows is only used on 36%. iOS is on 14%.
Right there, Arm outnumbers Windows by 17%. Windows on x86 is far less popular than Arm and Arm-based operating systems. Windows and x86 will be dead very soon. They cost too much. Burn too much power. They are ugly, poor designs. No taste at all. Arm is both technically superior, more popular, and is rapidly rising in market share compared to pitiful x86.
I’ve designed Sparc, x86, x86-64, PowerPC, and MIPS processors. x86 are the worst. Inherently crappy. And intel’s designers are terrible. If you compare designs between architectures, a good RISC design beats a good x86 design every time.
This is your imagination! Engineers at Intel are excellent scientists !! Sorry, so you were not a very good engineer, scientist, if you say that about your colleagues.I’ve designed Sparc, x86, x86-64, PowerPC, and MIPS processors. x86 are the worst. Inherently crappy. And intel’s designers are terrible. If you compare designs between architectures, a good RISC design beats a good x86 design every time.
P.S. The amount of software written for ARM is very, very small! A huge amount of software has been written for the x86 architecture!! Only RISC architecture is the past !! Hybrid architectures are popular now!!! Symbiosis of CISC and RISC architectures is the future which are Intel processors!!!
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Yeah 🍿 It's quite funny to watch someone with bunch of expertise like cmaier respond to someone else who can't see past x86 architecture due to refusal to change. Change is already here and it will affect us all. The only question is how long will it take for developers to offer proper AArch64 version of their apps. Hopefully it won't take that long 🤞
I am curious what running Windows on Apple Silicon in, say, VMware Fusion will be like (if it's a thing at all).