X86 - what's the future?
In this year we have seen:
- information about Intel CPU instability from voltage and manufacturing process (13 and 14 gen)
- relative weak performance of Arrow/Lunar Lake CPUs (Intel concentrated on power efficiency)
- (initial?) problems with Ryzen 9000 series
- Qualcomm delivering only part of promises & without faith in own platform. Currently we see canceled SDK mini PC, we don't have full compatibility, Linux support and CPUs are normally paired with power-hungry screens and small batteries (which doesn't make any sence).
- AMD with paper AI 300 series. We don't have many systems with it, they seems to be too expensive (mini PC cost even 2x than prev gen), additionally almost all models come from Asus and sometimes we see such nonsenses like pairing with Nvidia cards.
- AMD working together with Intel on extending x86 (they probably feel pressure from ARM and RISC-V)
Is x86 really dying?