Re:Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger
by n144q on Monday December 02, 2024 @10:28AM
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Looks like your post is talking about two things -- corporate purchased laptops and AWS instances, which are quite different.
About corporate laptops, do you have evidence to show that companies are switching to Macbooks from HP/Dell/ThinkPads?
Re:Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger
by cogman10 on Monday December 02, 2024 @11:10AM
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> corporate purchased laptops and AWS instances, which are quite different.
They are similar. Particularly because developing on a corporate hardware with an ARM processor is a surefire way to figure out if the software you write will have issues with ARM in AWS.
That's pretty much the entire reason x86 took off in the server market in the first place.
> About corporate laptops, do you have evidence to show that companies are switching to Macbooks from HP/Dell/ThinkPads?
Nope. Mostly just anecdotal. My company offers devs the option of either an x86 machine or a mac.
Re:Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger
by n144q on Monday December 02, 2024 @12:04PM
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Lots of companies do that, and I wouldn't call it an x86/ARM choice but rather the same old Windows/Mac choice. For Windows, only x86 makes sense for companies with lots of legacy software, and the only choice for Mac is ARM.
> IT departments are not going to stop buying x86 processors until they absolutely are forced to.
IT departments are buying arm laptops, Apple's.
And there is an incentive to switch, cost. If you are in AWS, you can save a pretty penny by adopting graviton processors.
Further, the only thing stopping handhelds from being arm machines is poor x86 emulation. A solvable problem with a small bit of hardware. (Only non-existent because current ARM vendors can't be bothered to add it and ARM hasn't standardized it).
Really the only reason arm is lagging is because the likes of Qualcomm have tunnel vision on what markets they want to address.