What has changed so that chip makers have moved from x86 to arm?
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It’s not that sudden, arm has had a significant part of the CPU market for a while. Every smartphone and tablet and most proprietary processers like the tegra X1 in the switch, uses the arm architecture.
They’ve been slowly creeping into new products (notable apple products which is why people are talking so much) because they are far more power efficient than x86.
The downside is compatibility with x86 software is poor and total performance is less than x86 both of which are slowing being solved.
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