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by klausa 769 days ago
I think if you expect these to land in budget devices; you're going to be sorely disappointed.
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They're going to end up in extremely shit high end devices which will be canned after 6 months of poor sales and bad reviews.
Microsoft _might_ make interesting Surface models out of it and price them in a somewhat reasonable fashion. Bad reviews will be done by people expecting x86/M4 performance with Windows and MacOS. But what is needed is non-Mac stable and open ARM Linux platform that is more powerful than a RPi5.
It's always the same song and dance with Windows on ARM.
I don't expect the first one to do that. But the next ones definitely. And it doesn't have to be "budget" straight away; there's a whole range of "normal" prices between that and Apple.
The chips themselves are reportedly quite cheap relative to comparable Intel CPUs.