>>51042638When AMD goes under and Intel is going to need a new competitor.
>>51043165PPC architecture was impressive for what it was, and top-spec Power Mac G5s where considerably faster than X86 systems for many years on in certain applications.
However, with ARM approaching with experience from the low-power segment, it's not unreasonable to expect a full desktop-class ARM CPU to be fairly energy-efficient,
It's like how Nvidia's dabbling in the mobile space helped them make cooler cards, taking them from the housefires meme of the 500 series to the extremely efficient Maxwell of today.