I will counter that with the fact that ARM also has more weight, in a different sense. Consider how many companies are backing ARM:
Apple, Qualcomm, Nvidia, Mediatek
Samsung, Huawei, the hyperscalers (Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft).... They are all leveraging ARM CPUs in some form or the other. Meanwhile, the x86 camp only has Intel and AMD.
Ridiculous.
Apple has already seemingly lost most of its CPU people to Nuvia/Qualcomm.
Nvidia basically rides ARM just to hamper AMD. Their "Grace" CPUs are so unwanted and pointless that they basically have to force sell them in bundles with Hopper GPUs. Nobody cares about NVIDIA CPUs, they literally HAVE to buy them.
Mediatek is not exactly top tier silicon either.
Which leaves Qualcomm as the only big contender for now, and until we get the real benchmarks, it's all wild promises.
As for all the others, they're clients. You're shilling ARM's TAM, not ARM's quality. And I never meant financial weight in the first place, I meant the weight of effort/experience towards real top level stuff.
ARM already has a presence in servers. See Nvidia Grace, Ampere Computing, Amazon Graviton, Google Axion and Microsoft Cobalt.
ARM isn't just phones. It is everywhere.
Memes, all of them.
Graviton is the poster child for these chips: done in-house for the dozen or so services that AWS could either put on a Xeon/EPYC for full price, or design at home, buy at TSMC, and get 75% of an EPYC/Xeon's perf for 50% of the price. When you control the entire software/HW stack that the chip is meant to serve, it's just a smart call. None of those sell as high performance generic chips in the server market, except Ampere. The rest is all in-house-for-house, or a literal "we taped this awesome Grace CPU to your GPU and you can't buy the GPU without the CPU bruh".
I must've deleted the 9 in 95%. 95% of x86 perf.
IT IS relevant. It is the reigning king. Besides, I don't think Zen5 mobile is going to top it. It will take Zen5 desktop to do so, and of course use more power to do so.
Some of your statements clearly show an AMD/x86 bias. There's nothing wrong with having biases, as we all do. But it is important to be open minded and not let ourselves be blinded from the facts.
The entirety of your statements are soaked with pro-ARM bias, so please don't meme yourself by calling out people's biases now.
And it is not relevant. Zen 5 comes out in 2 weeks and that's that. Apple's fancy fat cores won because they were fat and always a node ahead. If Zen 5, on N4P rather than N3E, comes even close to M4, that's it, it's GG for "ARM domination". The "Apple is ARM and Apple is Best thus ARM is best" is a ridiculous fallacy when you look at how wide, how low-frequency, and how expensive they are to make, on a more advanced node almost every time.