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Originally Posted by downquark1
You have to understand if an ARM chip exceeds the x86 in floating point performance without gpu offloading then the x86 is defacto obsolete. Which means AMD will be brought to it's knees and intel will be on life support.
The only people who will be buying x86 will be retro gamers.
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We'll see but people are excited about ARM so Intel should be concerned. The warning signs have been there for a while now, first when the iPhone started really started getting impressive numbers and then when the iPad Pro started dominating in multi-score tests as well as single-core ones.
The iPad Pro is genuinely more powerful than most consumer laptops.
If Apple prove ARM to work very well on proper laptops then Intel will be in serious trouble for the consumer market.
They might be saved by compatibility issues with the software. Apple is well-suited for such transitions because they don't have too many businesses running 20-year-old software on modern macs. Their control over the platform for the software that is run means they can get developers over quickly to the new platform. Microsoft will find this transition harder.
I don't know enough about servers but my understanding is x86 will survive there for a while yet according to people who do know. Xeon chips just seem to be well suited to that task.