chip is one of the more intriguing prospects for the PC over the next 12 months. Now Arm's head honcho has revealed that there will be more PC-optimised CPUs incoming over the next few years.
Still, the net result, according to Haas, is that Arm chips will make significant inroads into the PC market."We think now will be the time, over the next two, three years, where the Arm ecosystem will take a significant level of market share, primarily because of the level of experience that we've seen in the other ecosystem, the fantastic performance, the great battery life, the fact that you can build a high-performance machine minus a fan," Haas says.
However, even if it delivers in terms of raw performance, arguably the most important test will be how it and the Arm version of Windows handles legacy x86 code. If that runs pretty smoothly, then an Arm laptop could be very compelling. Similarly, while Qualcomm has said that its chip can be paired with a discrete GPU, it's not clear if any such systems will actually exist when the first X Elite laptops go on sale.
For sure, Nvidia has good reason to want to get into the Arm CPU market. It doesn't have, and likely never will be able to acquire an x86 licence. And as its recent failed efforts to actually acquire the entirety of Arm itself show, Nvidia is interested in Arm CPUs. And of course, as pictured above, Nvidia uses Arm cores in its Grace data centre CPU.
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