The situation must really be dire
Honestly it doesn’t look like they are threatened by ARM after all. Qualcomm and Microsoft keep screwing up and I’m not sure who else has both capability and aspiration for PC market. Apple are doing their own thing and not looking back but they’re not going to really threaten x86 in any foreseeable future.
Microsoft’s superpower is failing upwards, so don’t let their mistakes lead you to believe they’ll stop.
It’s not the first time they borked Windows on ARM so I’m not holding my breath. I think they’ve reached the limits of how badly big corpos can try to push their luck.
Monopolies typically don’t like when they can’t just buy out their competitors.
I personally think the threat from ARM (as per current products). There is no reason to get a WoA Snapdragon X device unless you are specifically looking for such hardware.
Snapdragon X devices fails to match x86 (from both Intel and AMD) in terms of performance and efficiency advantages are marginal.
Nvidia and Mediatek’s new laptop SoC might have something new to offer.
Plus the availability of software support is rather poor in the desktop realm.
