But x86 and Intel are losing badly in the highest growth part of the market: mobile/smart phones.
Now $699 M1-based Mac mini is way faster than any Intel box in that price range and many that cost much more.
The benchmarks that are starting to come out are just nuts, favoring the M1.
Of course not all of the pieces are in place; that takes a while. But those developers that are on top of their game released universal versions of their apps that take full advantage of the M1 SoC and all of its benefits: unified memory, 8 CPU and GPU cores, Neural Engine, etc.
It's day 1 of Big Sur being available and customers haven't gotten their M1 Macs yet, though they'll have them in a few days.
In a couple of months, once the dust has settled and developers have gotten their hands on shipping hardware, people's understanding of what performance is possible on consumer-level hardware will be changed for good.
> But x86 and Intel are losing badly in the highest growth part of the market: mobile/smart phones.
x86 and Intel are making all their money running your k8s on AWS, GCP and other server platforms so you can consume on your locked down ARM device. That's where the big money and margins are.
Apple never really could get a foothold in that market.
x86 and Intel are making all their money running your k8s on AWS, GCP and other server platforms…
ARM is coming for the datacenter too; this will not end well for Intel [1]:
Amazon Web Services launched its Graviton2 processors,
which promise up to 40% better performance from
comparable x86-based instances for 20% less.
Graviton2, based on the Arm architecture, may have a
big impact on cloud workloads, AWS' cost structure,
and Arm in the data center.
Mobile phones have had a decade of phenomenal growth and development.
Now people are at home again, and not quite so mobile. Commensurately, we are seeing a breath of life into a laptop/desktop market segment that, with few exceptions, has been marching to a steady drumbeat for at least the past six years.
Now $699 M1-based Mac mini is way faster than any Intel box in that price range and many that cost much more.
The benchmarks that are starting to come out are just nuts, favoring the M1.
Of course not all of the pieces are in place; that takes a while. But those developers that are on top of their game released universal versions of their apps that take full advantage of the M1 SoC and all of its benefits: unified memory, 8 CPU and GPU cores, Neural Engine, etc.
It's day 1 of Big Sur being available and customers haven't gotten their M1 Macs yet, though they'll have them in a few days.
In a couple of months, once the dust has settled and developers have gotten their hands on shipping hardware, people's understanding of what performance is possible on consumer-level hardware will be changed for good.
There are Hollywood studios already planning to replace their high-end, pro Macs with M1 Mac minis because they'll be faster than what they have: https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/11/12/hollywood-thinks-...