Of course, you wouldn't want a Mac or Chromebook as your primary gaming rig. But whatcertainly have done is prove that ARM can compete with traditional x86 CPUs for raw performance, something that was never previously true.new custom-designed Oryon ARM cores, due out next year.
They're built specifically for Windows machines and the aim for Qualcomm is to be competitive with Apple's M1 and M2 chips. If Qualcomm achieves that, it will by default be competitive in pure performance terms with Intel and AMD x86 chips. The question then becomes one of software support. Porting games—and other critical software like graphics drivers—over to ARM from x86 would be a major effort.
So, while a big chunk of the PC market could well be running on ARM within a few years, we think it will take much, much longer for gaming PCs to make the jump—if indeed that ever happens. ARM-powered gaming PCs are one of those much mooted new technologies that's always just over the horizon. Long predicted, but seemingly never actually getting much closer.