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Graviton, M1/M2, Ampere etc but I’m sure you’ll be able to explain why Arm is seen as ‘legacy’ tech when billions of smartphones are being shipped every year with Arm CPUs.

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Oh look, you named 4 areas where ARM development has already peaked. Hyperscalers are already looking to evolve from ARM in the near future, just look at how much attention Ventana got at RISC-V Summit. M1/M2 are Apple ecosystem specific phenomenon that haven't inspired any copycat products. Ampere has been a massive disappointment to everyone in the industry, see the fact that Nuvia had their entire business dead-to-rights pre-acquisition. ARM simply isnt at the cutting edge of the semiconductor industry anymore. Just because Apple and Qualcomm use it to great effect doesn't mean ARM is making any major innovative strides relative to the competition.

> ARM simply isnt at the cutting edge of the semiconductor industry anymore.

What you really mean is Arm isn’t the hot new thing anymore. Well it hasn’t been that for 20 years. Meanwhile billions of arm devices in leading edge nodes are being shipped. Oh well.

> Hyperscalers are already looking to evolve from ARM

citation needed

https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/08/5_percent_cloud_arm/

"5% of the cloud now runs on Arm as chip designer plans 2023 IPO"

5% does not seems to me as a position that you want to change to something else.

ARM in every day computing outside of mobile phones and SBCs is just getting started as I see it.

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