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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by ThrowawayR2 on Friday April 23, 2021 @07:59PM (#26920700)
Nope. If that were actually true, Alpha, PA-RISC, UltraSPARC, or even Itanium would've killed x86 earlier.
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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by baybal2 on Friday April 23, 2021 @08:06PM (#26920751)
All of above were beating X86 on transistor count/performance for their time. Beating X86 on that was their very point.

Their commercial demise had nothing to do with their hardware.

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