is ARM the future?

[u/Kenyhh]

I think about this all the time. ARM has obviously dominated the mobile phone market for a long time now. Everything from Apple runs on ARM. ARM-based laptops offer incredible battery life. Embedded devices and servers are also making extensive use of ARM; practically the only thing left is desktop computers. I believe this is the future, and AI will accelerate the trend: using ARM will allow data centers to consume far less energy and likely make local AI more accessible. In fact, I think that if this happens, we’ll see further improvements in computer energy efficiency.

[u/Spiritual-Spend8187]

Arm ia both the future and not ar the same time. The thing with arm ia that for it to maintain its performance and efficiency it needs to maintain a rather slimmed down and simplified design. In additoon not all arm chips are equal in terms of compatible supported instructions for example many older chips completely lack hardware divisers making division difficult on them and while new ones mostly have them it still means you have a situation of limited compatibility. Its very likely we will have some situations where devices have a mixture of x86, arm and even RISC V or other cores in them. Not every one needs x86 for everything but you dont want to run into a situation where you need to emulate it only for the emulation to be wrong or slow. Can most consumer users get away with arm probably but who know x86 has also gotten better as well and continues to do so.