(05-26-2021, 04:26 AM)AnyOldName3 Wrote: Intel did what companies with effective monopolies do, i.e. nothing meaningful for several years. Maybe if AMD had been capable of competing in the period where they weren't, we'd have had x86 processors maintain the gap with ARM, or maybe CISC would have hit a wall by now and we'd live in a RISC-V-powered utopia, or maybe things would be largely the same as they are now, but with somewhat faster desktops available.
The real problem is desktops are locked to x86/x64 until someone comes up with a translation layer good enough where we can ditch Intel entirely. Backwards compatibility matters.