Hello! I wanted to record some thoughts I had on predictions for ths coming year, if only to provide a record to check against in the future. Hope you enjoy and feel free to drop a comment with your thoughts! #1. Intel announces a new ISA to compete with ARM >30% - Not particularly likely in 2022 but more likely in 2023 and beyond Apple is selling a TON of Macs with M1 processors and these processors are very fast. TheRegister writes Arm's market share in PC chips was about eight per cent during Q3 this year, climbing steadily from seven per cent in Q2, and up from only two per cent in Q3 2020, before Arm-compatible M1 Macs went on sale. Apple's ARM based processors use an ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) that is newer and better designed than the x86 one used by Intel and AMD. While switching ISAs is a huge undertaking, users of the x86 ISA have higher power consumption and larger silicon area to perform the same operations. #2. Recognition for SAR-CoV-2 / C