I really hope Intel doesn't fix it's game before AMD and Arm seriously sandwich them out of the consumer market.
5 years of decline in PC/x86 sales..
Intentionally terrible product lines of a monopoly not wanting to canabalize any higher pricing potential.
Insubstantial profits available if they ever get their mobile chips on track after some terrible attempts.
CPUs based on cheery forecasts of the high 5 years ago should be hitting the end of their pipelines..
A Microsoft that isn't reaĺly sure if/why it still does desktops.
As someone who has been more occupied with Arm CPUs, I wonder what someone who was paying more attention to Intel would notice and I look forward to being able to scale up straight from Arm64 to genuine AMD64.
5 years of decline in PC/x86 sales.. Intentionally terrible product lines of a monopoly not wanting to canabalize any higher pricing potential.
I see why. I had a three-year-old Retina iMac that was a nightmare to set up (https://jakeseliger.com/2015/01/01/5k-retina-imac-and-mac-os...) and now have a current-gen Retina iMac that was easy to set up, which is a great improvement, but the day-to-day performance increases are small. The screen is better but not by much. The GPU is apparently much better but little that I do is GPU constrained.
I hope Intel does step up their game, but assuming that there's healthy competition with good ARM and AMD chips. Competition is good for the consumer.
But I also want to see ARM based laptops from both Microsoft and Apple (Though Intel has Apple by the ears with Thunderbolt until USB 3.2 becomes a viable alternative on the low end.)
Dunno about Apple, but i find it unlikely from Microsoft. They have tried again and again to go beyond x86, only to find that they can't escape the weight of win32.
Our best bet would have been ChromeOS, as it is a platform with no legacy to deal with. But even there new models are now Intel based rather than ARM.
Remember that Microsoft made a big bet on ARM based tablet/laptops only a few years ago. It was a massive failure and cost them hundreds of millions of dollars in write offs. I can't see them being very excited to try again.
5 years of decline in PC/x86 sales.. Intentionally terrible product lines of a monopoly not wanting to canabalize any higher pricing potential. Insubstantial profits available if they ever get their mobile chips on track after some terrible attempts. CPUs based on cheery forecasts of the high 5 years ago should be hitting the end of their pipelines.. A Microsoft that isn't reaĺly sure if/why it still does desktops.
As someone who has been more occupied with Arm CPUs, I wonder what someone who was paying more attention to Intel would notice and I look forward to being able to scale up straight from Arm64 to genuine AMD64.