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This month, the initial battle will begin on what will be an historic war for the next generation of PCs. Initially it will be fought on laptops but – much like smartphones drifted to tablets, and much of the initial wave of AI-driven, home-based digital assistants – this war may eventually encompass all PCs.
If this were just a war between processors, the X86 folks would likely win easily, both because Windows has decades of tuning on X86 and it is the entrenched part. But this isn’t about processors. This is about whether the computing will be done on the desktop or in the cloud.
In short this is a war between the modem and the processor…or yet another attempt to turn the PC into more of large smartphone.