[Info-vax] Microsoft On ARM Failure (was Re: VSI licensing policy (again))

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2021-09-23 20:08:36 +0000, Dave Froble said:

> But, are they much better for desktop and notebook PCs?  I really can't 
> see them being much better in that environment.

Apple is presently transitioning desktop and notebook products to Arm, 
so we'll find out soon enough...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_transition_to_Apple_silicon

https://www.laptopmag.com/news/apple-m1-vs-intel-cpu-this-is-the-best-processor-for-your-laptop 


It is likely a new M-class processor and new Macs will be arriving 
later this year.

Apple has had practice with these architectural transitions. Microsoft 
has had more ports, but hasn't yet migrated their whole hardware and 
customer base.

Intel missed what became a massive market here:

> "We ended up not winning it or passing on it, depending on how you want 
> to view it. And the world would have been a lot different if we'd done 
> it," Otellini told me in a two-hour conversation during his last month 
> at Intel. "The thing you have to remember is that this was before the 
> iPhone was introduced and no one knew what the iPhone would do... At 
> the end of the day, there was a chip that they were interested in that 
> they wanted to pay a certain price for and not a nickel more and that 
> price was below our forecasted cost. I couldn't see it. It wasn't one 
> of these things you can make up on volume. And in hindsight, the 
> forecasted cost was wrong and the volume was 100x what anyone thought."

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/paul-otellinis-intel-can-the-company-that-built-the-future-survive-it/275825/ 




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