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2020-08-21, 17:24

Yes, I forgot Core Duo was Yonah, not Conroe, the latter was the name that stuck in my mind though. Intel was really counting on the Atom platform going head to head with ARM. They put a lot into Atom, knowing that low power stuff was the future, but it was a flop. They had no meaningful competition in the x86/x64 space for 10-12 years and now it’s all backfired on them at once. It’s likely why they are investing in SSD and compute GPU spaces.

Indeed, I could see Apple wanting to switch to a totally open source, licence free architecture if the performance was there. RISC has a long way to go, even to catch ARM, but given that it has some big name backers from all over the industry there is potential for sure.

turtle, I cannot see quantum computing going main stream, even in ten years. At best it’s a specialty server platform, given the cooling needs. Maybe as a totally cloud based system that uses other traditional hardware as an interface, but not as personal computers.
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