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I looked around the room I'm in just now, and I see a M1-based MacBook Pro, an iPhone XS, an iPad Pro, an iPhone 12, and a Sony OLED TV which most likely uses an ARM core.

The only exception is my wife's work laptop, an x86 MacBook Pro. (It'll be replaced by an ARM-based one in a year or two.)

It's quite safe to say that x86 is dead.

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You just sent this message to a whole bunch of servers that are almost certainly running x86-64 and that side is unlikely to change for the near future, I'm pretty sure that 64-bit Intel still has some life in it

Public clouds are increasing their usage of ARM all the time. I don't think anyone will ditch Intel processors soon (the same way that for those outside our space, they're still buying Intel laptops), but I think we will only see that usage grow in the datacenter.

https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/arm/its-happening-arm-se...

Disagree. Server hardware usually gets rotated on a fairly aggressive schedule, and power consumption absolutely matters for server farms.

> power consumption absolutely matters for server farms

And heat, which makes cooling cheaper, has a good chance at reducing noise in the datacentre, etc.

FWIW my next project on AWS will almost certainly be using graviton instances.

I count a lot of Apple chips, not ARM. Some of them might still run a mostly ARMv8 compatible instruction set, but I'm sure that is going to change (as it already is). You will all want your x64 back soon enough..

There might be some sampling bias here.

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