"They've been relegated to pretty insignificant roles in the PC business."

Intel doesn’t think that Arm CPUs will make a dent in the laptop market::“They’ve been relegated to pretty insignificant roles in the PC business.”

  • mothattack@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I was referring to arm and other risc cpus Microsoft has tried before. This is Microsoft’s 3rd attempt with arm. The NT in Windows NT literally is a reference to a RISC chip.

    • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      NT launched on a bunch of chips, many of them what we would call RISC today. As far as I can tell it was not intended to displace x86, merely to take advantage of the hardware of the 386+ chips and complement the Intel offering with other OEMs.

      Windows NT 3.1 was released for Intel x86 PC compatible, PC-98, DEC Alpha, and ARC-compliant MIPS platforms. Windows NT 3.51 added support for the PowerPC processor in 1995

      Alpha (also RISC) was a hot item back in the day, which is why I mentioned it explicitly.

      Arm was not part of the deal at the time, but was added later starting with the surface tablets. I have not been counting, but I have no trouble believing it’s the third attempt since surface RT.