Canalys president and CEO, Jay Chou, has said that the upcoming CES 2017 will be “an incredible, industry-changing event” that is not taken seriously enough. ..
According to recent reports, ARM chips may already be found in a sizable portion of the market. This is due to the increasing popularity of ARM-based CPUs, which are currently found in almost all Apple Macs. Surprisingly, Apple holds a 13.5% market share for PCs. Additionally, several low-cost Chromebooks contain ARM processors. This suggests that ARM chips may soon become the dominant type of CPU for PCs. ..
This article discusses how ARM’s share of the PC market has increased in recent years, and how Mercury Research believes that the company’s growth is due to its increasing share of PC processors.
Apple’s M1 and M2 chips have certainly proven that ARM can compete with traditional x86 CPUs in raw performance.
Qualcomm is claiming that its new Oryon ARM core is the best in the market, and it will be able to compete with Apple’s M1 and M2 chips.
Qualcomm’s new x86-arm chip could give it an edge over Intel and AMD in terms of performance, but the problem becomes one of software support. If Qualcomm can’t port games and other important software to ARM, it will have to compete with Intel and AMD’s x86 chips on performance.
While it’s entirely possible that the majority of PCs will be running on ARM within a few years, gaming PCs will take much longer to make the leap. ARM-powered gaming PCs are one of the much-discussed new technologies that are always on the horizon. It’s been predicted for a long time, but apparently never came close. ..
