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PC gaming heading to ARM?
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this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2023
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Modern games are generally written at such a high level these days that architecture barely matters. Java never delivered on its "write once, run everywhere" promise, and nothing else has either, so the main limiting factor is the lack of some unified ARM OS for gaming ... which is maybe a great place for Linux to step in?
Anyway, all this is doing right now is put money in ARM's pockets, so that's not great. Sadly, an open RISC platform like RISC-V will take a while to reach the maturity that ARM has.
What is wrong with ARM?
In the RISC space they are, currently, almost de facto monopolistic (we'll how RISC-V will go, hopefully). X86 is fought between AMD and Intel, this gives us a leeway on how much scummy either of the two are. ARM is very competitive because they chased many industries so far, the last one is x86: if Intel and AMD go for ARM's RISC, they will basically subdue themselves under ARM.
It's not about ARM being a good or bad company, the issue is when a company become monopolistic they are basically forced into change their founding ground.
Valve is an example of a company that tries to avoid monopolies (even self one) as much as possible.
I'd argue that any monopoly is inherently bad.