I understand that the 3 first statistics include non x86 CPUs
(edit: maybe not "desktop" though)
Objectively true.
> You would be hard pressed to find one that didn't
Eh, that's less true; I own 2 ARM Chromebooks, because I wanted some non-x86 in my life, and neither was hard to find, it just took me actually looking for it.
Search Chromebook on bestbuy, exclude out of stock and sort by price, and you'll see a mix of arm and x86.
Honestly, I think the research firm's divisions are crap. WTF is "mobility" anyway? Why would this not include laptops?
A Chromebox is a desktop PC. And ChromeOS devices can run a full Debian Linux distro in a VM. What's not desktop about that?
Or is the definition of desktop computer that it can, say, run Adobe Photoshop natively?
So a "desktop PC" isn't about its feature set or where you might put it, instead it is a form factor.
My point is that the Chromebook is a mobile device: it's tiny and easy to carry around. So why is it not in the "mobility" category? And for that matter, why is every laptop computer not in this category? When did "mobile" somehow become equal to "something you can carry in one hand while also operating it"? The entire point of laptops was that they're mobile. These days, not that many people use "desktop PCs", outside of corporate offices, they use "mobile devices" (i.e. laptops).
And where do tablets fall? You can prop them up on a desk and attach a keyboard, and they act just like a laptop (you can also connect external screens etc.).
As I said before, their categories are stupid.
https://www.hp.com/us-en/chrome/chromebase-all-in-one-deskto...
To the original point, it sleeps perfectly.
I purchased a MacBook Pro last year...zero remorse.
Edit: Also Macs.
No, seriously. Most peoples' computing needs and desires are satisfied with a phone, they don't actually need a laptop let alone a desktop.
It's not that x86 is losing market share, it's that Personal Computers are changing from the desktop/laptop form factor to the smartphone form factor. It's mere coincidence ARM and not x86 powers all those smartphones.
Also, if 30% of x86 market share corresponds to ~20% of "big processor" market share, that means that non-x86 cores have about 30% market share.
European companies are discovering the same thing, too. They have embraced ARM and RISC-V very strongly.
Unless Google chromebooks up their game, or the pc disappears completely I don't really see arm taking over.
I thought ARM represented like ~5% of server install base, and maybe like 10% of 2022 server sales. Similarly, I understood Chromebooks + Macbooks (the two major laptop ARM products) to be on the order of 25% of laptop sales.
These are both real and meaningful chunks of market, but I don't think they're enough to make up for the discrepancy in numbers. Perhaps they are including game consoles.
[Edit] - found reporting on 2021 numbers they clearly seem to indicate that the first three sets of numbers are x86 only (https://venturebeat.com/consumer/mercury-research-amd-closes...)
The two big extra categories would seem to be game consoles (as suggested by GP), and IoT.