The release of the Apple M1 CPU caught a lot of attention from all kinds of media and blogs except myself. The processor was pictured in X-ray from all sides, all possible benchmarks are published. Even information about the update of this wonderful processor leaked. And, of course, again everyone buried x86 as architecture.

The recent undertaker of x86 from the ARM side, I don`t take AWS a1 instances into account yet, was HPE Moonshot Project, which, however, moved smoothly back to the traditional x86 platform.

As for me, the burners of x86 did not pass the short course of recent history. The fight between x86 and RISC has already happened once. Although eventually, RISC lost because of the negatives of its architecture both platforms have changed significantly over the past years, integrating the best sides of the competitor.

It even got to the point that it is considered that x86 processors are RISC-alike inside now. Well, thanks to God not quite the opposite.

The thing is that the context and evolution of IT over the years are not taken into account, as well as the shift of profits from the PC market to the servers and cloud.

The PC market has lost its former influence: the vector of development of processor technologies is already set even not by the server, but clouds. Secondly, compared to the 1980s, the CPU field has become much wider. ARM will lead in areas that didn`t exist before: IoT, vehicles, embedded devices, etc. A huge area with devices is dozens of times more than in all history Intel sales.

Another important point: other processor architectures and types of processors that ARM will have to deal with: MIPS and RISC V. Not to mention specialized solutions such as ASIC and FPGA, which also will have to resist in the SmartNIC market. As so, the struggle will rise.