[brucethemoose2]

> gaming will likely never move to arm.

Oh, it can if Nvidia, AMD and Microsoft push it.

Most of the back catalog can probably run fine emulated, though you may want to stick to x86 for those older CPU bound sim games that aren't going to get a recompile.

[nerdjon]

You missed the part after it. The first problem is software, which given what Apple managed with Rosetta I think will be able to be addressed.

But the big problem is hardware. Are we going to see customizable ARM systems or are all ARM systems going to be basically SOC's and basically just be a console. Maybe with an expansion port for something other than graphics?

I am asking because to my knowledge we have not seen this yet. But upgradability and building your own computer is a big reason that people choose a PC vs a console.

Is this a limitation of ARM (and could Nvidia, AMD, and Microsoft just go down that same path) or is it just a limitation of how it has been implemented so far.

If it is perfectly feasible, would we still see the big performance improvements like we are seeing on the M chips with everything combined?

[brucethemoose2]

> But upgradability and building your own computer is a big reason that people choose a PC vs a console.

I hate to break it to PC builders, but DIMMs are starting to max out, signal integrity over those pins is becoming a problem. Before long, CPU RAM is probably gonna be soldered and packaged with the CPU anyway.

The architecture won't necessarily be like Apple though. The CPU/GPU could be their own tiles, meaning we could have GPU-less SKUs that still use PCIe GPUs. And the SoCs or whatever they are can still be socketed.