The purpose of this thread has from the beginning been to try to predict how the ARM architecture is scaling upwards and growing into new markets, [constantly] a few years down the road.

To summarize a bit:

The x86 PC market has been in decline for a couple of years. Other kind of devices appeal, and desktop CPU performance has kind of been "enough" for many people for a long time, meaning less need for new HW.

But as the closest above article mentions, "Though the PC may be in decline, two growth segments have been low-cost (priced between $200 and $300) and two-in-one laptops."

The PC is mainly consisting of Core i7 (expensive, mainly targeting the most demanding rendering applications and workstations where multi-threading is key), Core i5 (essentially like i7, less multi-threading but more suitable for high end gaming and "normal" power users) and the low-cost Core i3 (that is probably is enough for the general usage of some 90% of PC users today). Then there is various Core m CPU's, with ambitious marketing labels aiming to resemble the desktop market segments, but not really being so. Do you agree with this analysis?

With the general decline of the PC market and the new and renewed ARM efforts from Microsoft (including x86 emulation, IDE/framework/compiler development) and CPU manufacturers, with the drop of Atom, etc, do you agree that ARM could very well be taking over the current Core i3 and Core m segments kind of "soon"?

In this very thread, the first of the "ARM NG" CPU from Apple easily compared to a laptop Core m7 in that chess game application, its design and execution model surely compared to a Core i7, and the generations that followed from Apple has proven comparable or even surpassing the existing lower-end laptops and older desktop PC's, even while running battery powered and passively cooled!

It has been said that the Sam460 port of MorphOS forced a general cleanup and modification to the source code of MorphOS that made it possible to bring up MorphOS running on the X5000 in a matter of hours instead of a matter of weeks. I believe that a drop of Amiga Legacy compatibility and 64-bit adaptions etc will make the sources even more clean and platform agnostic, no matter what the target platform currently is. This too is certainly a good thing.

My main platform has been x86 for years, my next computer will be x86 as well (very soon). But as x86 continues to evolve, far beyond the needs of general people, maybe x86 will be more heading into "POWER" market territory a few years from now (not that it isn't already there technologically, I'm talking about *market* focus), while ARM will conquer the broader, general computer needs for general people?

Maybe the focus of future MorphOS versions should be "Agnostic" rather than "x64"? Would put some demands on development environment etc to make a single source run on multiple platforms (like Linux). But maybe they are already going there?