ARM instruction set has not changed very much at all since then and is in many chips in nearly every device. More are made than any other design.

She is also trans and transitioned in 1990s. Being a cis woman in technology can be frustrating even today. She was a trans woman in UK tech in 1990s.

This is a innovator in technology. Not Jobs, not Musk, not Gates. Wilson created the CPU design which is cheap, simple, efficient, strong, and has become universal today.

  • wantonviolins [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    This is mostly right. The things I’d correct you on are a lot of the same things I’d correct in my own comment - stuff that’s wrong because it’s oversimplified rather than wrong due to a fundamental misunderstanding.

    For example, most of the time, with modern code in modern languages with modern toolchains, you don’t have to rewrite much of anything to better optimize for ARM, just recompile. If your language runs in a VM (like Java) you don’t even have to do that much as long as the runtime itself is compiled for your environment. Also the bit about “pushing ARM faster” sounds like you’re talking about clock speeds and that’s not completely true, ARM chips may clock higher than x86 in the same power/thermal envelope but don’t hit higher clocks than x86 is capable of. Again, oversimplifications rather than errors.

    The only thing you got wrong was Apple’s motivation for switching to ARM - they give much less of a shit about performance than realizing the efficiencies of vertical integration and exercising greater control over their rapidly converging platforms.