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I hope their claims are true, because I'm sick of the duopoly in desktop CPUs.
On the bright side, ARM is getting there, plus there is RISC-V that is rising as well, but it still has some road ahead.
Tinkered with a https://www.banana-pi.org/en/banana-pi-sbcs/175.html recently and... it's really cool to have that at home, like, it works! In itself that's quite a feat. Yet... to become actually usable due to "just" raw power but also to be economically comparable to mass produced other architectures from other manufacturers is indeed quite some road ahead.