I got an ARM Windows 11 laptop (Lenovo X13s) because I wanted a lightweight travel laptop with long batter life. I was expecting a big compromise, but it's actually wonderful!
I'm a giant Intel fanboy, but I think they have a real challenge here.
I'm a giant Intel fanboy, but I think they have a real challenge here.
Thinking about it, I knew that Intel not landing the first iPhone contract was a big loss on mobile but I don’t think anyone expected it to savage their traditional strongholds like this because that paved the way for so many tools not just being ported but heavily optimized for ARM. They’re certainly still doing a ton of business but now there’s a cap on how much profit they can take even if AMD completely founders.
2014 - AMD Opteron A1100: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.anandtech.com/show/...
The startup Calxeda (2008-2013) - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calxeda
Intel also had the 'xscale' ARM chips back in the late 2000s
In 2008 even Java developers tended to be antsy about running on non-x86 hardware. A decade later it’s close to a non-issue for a staggering amount of stuff.
Intel Xscale were a different beast. They got that through StrongARM from DEC as part of some law suit wheeling and dealing. They never seemed to really want to push it, preferring instead to try competing in mobile with a string of failed x86 cores.
Funnily enough Intel also had the best/most competitive ARM cores with XScale in the early 2000s which seemed like the default option for most high-end devices at the time. I wouldn't have been surprised if Apple would've just went with that (even if not x86) if Intel hadn't decided to can it without actually having any viable x86 SoC to replace it...