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I’m going to rely on the insight of my friends in the chip biz working at Intel and Qualcomm back in the day; generic CPUs “won” as it became aware manufacturing anything different was literally impractical 10+ years ago.

The goal of custom to spec silicon never went away it just had to bide it’s time, then Intel got taken over by MBAs.

Choices were made based upon real data. That generic CPUs “won” due to consumer choice; anything winning due to consumer choice is just a handy political meme. We get what supply side can sell for the most profit.