Intel has already lost Apple. ARM has not been very successful on Windows yet, but Nuvia hased processors are supposed to be launched end of this year. If Nuvia chip is anything close to M1 also then both Intel and AMD are going to have tough time.
Of course, we'll have to see if Intel keeps up after finally clearing its 10nm hurdle.
The M series isn't as great as it seemed. It had an initial advantage of a smaller node, and benefits from everything being on-die. It's huge, so it relies more on the chip tech getting smaller than traditional CPU solutions.
On the compatibility side, Boot Camp is less useful when Windows on Arm does its own x86 emulation and works well enough in Parallels. On the graphics side they wrote their own DirectX 12 wrapper. If they can port some AI libs over, running them on 64 GB of shared CPU/GPU memory would be pretty amazing.
Maybe in 10 years, if Intel generationally leapfrogs them again like with the PowerPC era. But short of that, what would they have to gain?
Who’s going to write a “Rosetta for Windows” that works seamlessly though?
Microsoft? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/arm/apps-on-arm-x8...
> My frustration with this computer wasn’t a workload thing. It didn’t start out fast and gradually slow down as I opened more things and started more processes. It was peppered with glitches and freezes from start to finish.
I’d have only Slack open, and switching between channels would still take almost three seconds (yes, I timed it on my phone). Spotify, also with nothing in the background, would take 11 seconds to open, then be frozen for another four seconds before I could finally press play. When I typed in Chrome, I often saw significant lag, which led to all kinds of typos (because my words weren’t coming out until well after I’d written them). I’d try to watch YouTube videos, and the video would freeze while the audio continued. I’d use the Surface Pen to annotate a PDF, and my strokes would either be frustratingly late or not show up at all. I’d try to open Lightroom, and it would freeze multiple times and then crash.
https://www.theverge.com/23421326/microsoft-surface-pro-9-ar...
The other bulk of thr market is mobile, which is almost entirely arm already.
You're talking about the 2011 version of Rosetta that allowed Intel Macs to run PPC software.
>QuickTransit was a cross-platform virtualization program developed by Transitive Corporation. It allowed software compiled for one specific processor and operating system combination to be executed on a different processor and/or operating system architecture without source code or binary changes.