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Intel doesn’t think that Arm CPUs will make a dent in the laptop market (arstechnica.com)

submitted 8 months ago by L4s to c/technology

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Intel doesn’t think that Arm CPUs will make a dent in the laptop market::"They've been relegated to pretty insignificant roles in the PC business."

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[–] kalleboo 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

the CPU architecture is not as directly tied to the software as it once was

Yeah it used to be that emulating anything all would be slow as balls. These days, as long as you have a native browser you're halfway there, then 90% of native software will emulate without the user noticing since it doesn't need much power at all, and you just need to entice stuff that really needs power (Photoshop etc), half of which is already ARM-ready since it supports Macs.

The big wrench in switching to ARM will be games. Game developers are very stubborn, see how all games stopped working on Mac when Apple dropped 32-bit support, even though no Macs have been 32-bit for a decade.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

The game support was pretty much crap even before then and a lot of the blame lies on Apple.