On: Intel, SiFive Demo High-Performance RISC-V on Intel 4

[pjmlp]

85% of desktop users and about 90% cloud users certainly are.

Mobile phones and tablets are mostly consumer devices, Apple's ARM laptops are only relevant for about 10% of the desktop market.

Outside embedded devices and electronic appliances, every other CPU is a rounding error in what concerns the general public.

[temac → pjmlp]

If you exclude everything that does not go into your direction and make the hypothesis that a poor architecture would have risen and then would not have been replaced, you conclude that "everybody" would use it?

[pjmlp → temac]

Without AMD64, Windows and UNIX would, that is what matters in this context.

[klelatti → pjmlp]

So not everyone, even in your chosen subset of the market.

[pjmlp → klelatti]

It is a matter of market share.