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The future looks bleak for Intel and AMD. They are stuck evolving a 30 year-old architecture.

This is a bit silly. Neither Intel nor AMD are particularly constrained by the underlying ISA that their chips are using.

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Heh, dunno, notice that Apple is comparing themselves to the Intel chips, and in particular the i9. But NOT the AMD chips. On various metrics the Zen 3 looks pretty good compared to M1. AMD has Higher peak performance/throughput, similar per thread performance, and I've yet to see a GPU comparison.

This isn’t because they compare to AMD unfavorably, but because they habitually compare against their past offerings and against their goliath du jour (notice how they very seldom compare against other software vendors anymore since the iPhone has been a stable profit leader).

And AMD has released ARM chips as recently as 4 years ago

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