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Why haven't Intel and AMD caught up with Apple Silicon yet? (hexbear.net)
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Is ARM the only way to get there? And if so, why isn't Microsoft pushing for Windows on ARM? Are they too busy working on Copilot?

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[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

I see. Well they're two entirely different architectures so that's not really going to happen. ARM will likely always use less power without some heavy investment in wizardry for the x64 architecture because of the design.

It's not new however. Back in the 90s my dad used to say RISC (MIPS/arm) was going to trounce CISC (x86) due to the inbuilt efficiency of the architecture but there are many other factors that determine market winners.