CPU Wars: Intel, Arm, NVIDIA, AMD & the Future

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The evolution of instruction set architectures (ISAs) and companies in the CPU marketplace. If you like this ExplainingComputers episode, you may also be interested in some of my RISC-V content, including: “RISC-V 2025 Update”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s8hPmCZ0mk and “Why RISC-V Matters”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TmHSsIU1ns And you can find all of my RISC-V videos here: https://www.explainingcomputers.com/riscv_videos.html REFERENCES (in order of presentation/citation): Forbes article on the Hetrogeneous CPU Era, by Jim McGregor for Tirias Research: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tiriasresearch/2025/11/07/the-isa-wars-have-ended-and-the-heterogeneous-cpu-era-has-arrived/ Apple to use x86 processors, press release: https://www.apple.com/uk/newsroom/2005/06/06Apple-to-Use-Intel-Microprocessors-Beginning-in-2006/ One billion mobiles sold in 2006: https://www.zdnet.com/article/one-billion-mobiles-sold-in-2006/ Apple iPhone press release: https://www.apple.com/uk/newsroom/2007/01/09Apple-Reinvents-the-Phone-with-iPhone/ Intel Foundry Services: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/foundry/overview.html TSMC: https://www.tsmc.com/english/dedicatedFoundry/manufacturing Apple M5 press release: https://www.apple.com/uk/newsroom/2025/10/apple-unleashes-m5-the-next-big-leap-in-ai-performance-for-apple-silicon/ Copilot+ PCs introduced: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/05/20/introducing-copilot-pcs/ RISC-V 25 per cent market penetration: https://ri

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