[iSnow]

It is wild how ARM - which was kind of a niche company and ISA - has taken the world by storm since the modern smartphone was born. Now their designs make their way upwards to big iron and AI datacenters.

[kjs3]

It's what Intel did with x86 a few decades before the modern smart phone.

[graemep]

Smartphones were a big boost, but they were already growing very rapidly before that.