Arm wrestling

How to emulate x86’s success.

OPINION | TRADE CHAT Last month, I touched on the fact that the first official Microsoft AI PCs would be running a Qualcomm Arm-based CPU. This begs one obvious question: what about old software? Arm chips tend to be more efficient, but what good is that if you can’t use your favourite apps? The CPU cores in Apple’s new M4 chip are scary fast. Seriously. The M4 cranks out about 3,800 points in Geekbench 6 single core. That compares with roughly 3,300 points for an Intel Core i9-14900K. Remember, that’s an M4 running in a tablet. It’s only in the iPad Pro for now, not in any Mac computer. The point is that you can forget about assuming that Arm chips are efficient but feeble. They can be competitive and…

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