Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Corporate greed is ruining ARM" video.

  1. Adobe doesn’t really matter that much any more. There was a survey done of the VFX industry about a year ago, and 60% of their machines run Linux. So the lack of Adobe support isn’t stopping this share from growing.
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  2.  @carlosnava1471  There are quite a few graphic design channels here on YouTube that focus on Free software. E.g. Davies Media Design, Logos by Nick. These are professionals making a living from the tools they use. And finding the time to teach others about them.
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  3. Windows can’t even run properly on ARM, even after decades of trying, RISC-V is more than Microsoft can manage. A multi-architecture future will be centred around Linux, possibly also the open-source BSDs, but not Windows.
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  4. RISC-V has some interesting ideas. For example, its approach to vector processing is completely different from the SIMD style so popular among Intel, ARM and others, and harks back to the legendary Seymour Cray’s vector supercomputers from the 1970s and 1980s.
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  5. They tried that with Atom, but got trounced by ARM. Given their current financial situation, they are unlikely to try again.
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  6.  @fungo6631  But they never made money for Intel. Which is why it gave up.
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  7. Apple may have hit a “sunk-cost fallacy” situation now: having invested so much in ARM, they will be reluctant to move to something else. And their M1/M2 designs were brilliant, but are a bit of an evolutionary dead-end. They achieve performance by tying everything together so it becomes impossible to upgrade--basically, all their machines are now glorified laptops. This may be OK for all-in-one desktops, and actual laptops, but it’s going to cause them trouble coming up with a successor to the workstation-class Mac Pro machines.
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  8.  @garanceadrosehn9691  The point being how those chips are integrated into a non-modular design. This isn’t going to go down well in the workstation market.
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  9. I think the logistics of licensing the “open-source” versions of those other architectures has never been quite as easy as RISC-V has made it.
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  10. Remember, ARM Ltd has been in business for about 30 years. You don’t survive that long without making a comfortable profit. But now the managers are just getting greedy.
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  11. Given Microsoft’s repeated failures trying to support ARM, would this be a case of sour grapes? You have the Linux source code, which runs fine on ARM, RISC-V and loads of other architectures, why not learn some things from it?
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