Re: "The first Copilot+ PC has been tested and it destroys the MacBook"

On 2024-05-26 8:11 a.m., RonB wrote:

On 2024-05-25, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:

On 2024-05-25 1:58 p.m., chrisv wrote:

Andrzej Matuch wrote:
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As an end-user, it should be the same to me. However, even I think that
x86-64 needs to go. Considering how far they are able to go with ARM in
terms of extending battery life, cutting power consumption and removing
the need for cooling, it only makes sense. It should especially be of
interest to hippies if they are truly concerned about society's general
energy usage.

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I think that with x86-64 going to the big.little architecture, it
should remain competitive in the power department.  In general use,
the efficient cores will doing almost all the work.

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The x86-64 architecture isn't going anywhere because Intel and AMD have
invested too heavily into it. Its demise will come when people stop
considering chips by those two companies. That will only happen when the
disadvantages of using processors by either corporation become too
obvious to ignore.

 According to links rbowman posted, Intel will be producing ARM chips and, I
think, AMD has worked out some kind of deal with nVidia to produce ARM
chips.

They will produce them, but I doubt that they will focus entirely on that. Like I said, they've already invested so much into producing the x86-64 chips that even if they were to decide to focus on ARM development, they wouldn't just abandon it. I see no long-term future for x86-64 myself, mostly because it truly can't compete with something that doesn't have all of the archaic code bogging it down. However, a lot of companies probably need a chip which will run their ancient software. Unless the emulation offered on ARM is stellar - and I'm sure it will be - people will want the older architecture.
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