Re:Intel's Process Roadmap to 2025: with 4nm, 3nm, 20A and 18A?
by imtringued on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @05:22AM
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Windows on ARM laptops existed long before the M1 and they didn't catch on. It's Apple that is late to the party.
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Re:Intel's Process Roadmap to 2025: with 4nm, 3nm, 20A and 18A?
by shawnz on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @09:10AM
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But like you said yourself, they didn't catch on. Therefore I wouldn't describe those vendors as "successful". Apple was the first vendor to achieve that. It may be that the Qualcomm chips used by the majority of those devices just aren't competitive enough to replace desktop use cases.
Re:Intel's Process Roadmap to 2025: with 4nm, 3nm, 20A and 18A?
by smoldesu on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @01:26PM
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Apple Silicon != Windows on ARM.
Apple Silicon is a product line-spanning transition to home-cooked ARM CPUs. Windows on ARM was an experiment designed to run alongside x86, likely intended to fail. As for the "successful" bit, I couldn't frankly care less. You're welcome to measure success by whatever metric you choose, but the switch to ARM has ostracized me and many other developers I know (some of whom are Apple users currently).
In other words, ARM is good at watching Youtube videos at low wattages: who knew? (Answer: Everyone who used ARM for this exact purpose before Apple did)