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  • Intel announces technology team restructuring amid 7nm woes

    For ages the assumption in the industry was that performance = Intel (meaning architecture + supplier). 
    Lately AMD (and Intel stuck at 14nm forever) showed that Intel is not the sole supplier of performant chips. 
    The Mac transition will prove that Intel is not the only architecture that can yield serious performance. 
    Prominent software companies will be forced to recompile for ARM.
    The low cost of ARM chips will create an opportunity for cheap PCs.  This might revive WIN on ARM that was basically ignored. Chips progress and emulators become acceptable. 
    Intel backwards compatibility becomes baggage rather than a desirable feature. 
    Suddenly the huge price differential is not justified anymore. 
    imatwilliamlondonwatto_cobra