I’ll be really surprised if arm manages to get 10% by then
AMD is still here though.
I have no problem with ARM chips in PCs. I’ve loved every Apple Silicon Macbook I’ve had (one personal, 2 for different jobs). But for my gaming PC, I want the raw power of x86-64 and I want a socketed CPU and a GPU that goes in the PCI-E slot, not an SoC soldered onto the motherboard that includes everything.
I think ARM servers are also an interesting use case. The efficiency advantage is more significant at the data center level than for most desktop or laptop users (yea 25 hours of battery life is cool, but my work laptop is docked all the time anyway)
I don’t think ARM will compete in the gaming market anytime soon, and Intel has already fucked up that market for themselves.
ARM will probably gain a sizable portion of the office laptop share instead. Many people want to bring their laptop to a conference room without the charger and all that stuff. A good battery life is more prioritized in these cases than raw power.
There will be a point where APUs will make dGPUs obsolete. Their advantages are huge and it’s just the raw power and bandwidth that needs to catch up. Things like lower latency between CPU and GPU, and the big one: being able to use a shared address space. I don’t think even today’s APUs generally do that and instead set aside some system RAM to act as video RAM, but that setup involves a lot of copying data back and forth between video memory and system memory. If they both can just access the same memory space, that no longer needs to happen at all.
So it’s just a matter of fitting more compute cores on that package (which isn’t limited by chip size with chiplets) and scaling up the memory bandwidth until those advantages above reach parity with a dGPU.
And bitcoin will hit $1m and Google Stadia will be 80% of the gaming market and Lemmy will be bigger than Reddit and Tizen will overtake iOS and
Don’t forget the iPhone will fail, Netflix will never add ads, and the absolute king “you’re not always going to have a calc in your pocket!”
Arm CEO ignores RISC of open CPU design.
Am I the only one who finds the name of the company hilarious? 😁
They’re impressive. And operating systems have come a long way. I think software has to catch up before this can happen.
I really want to see servers running more efficient architecture.
