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End of an Era: How Silicon Will Decide BIM’s Future
As computing enters a voltage-limited era, the shift away from x86 toward ARM—already reshaping datacenters, laptops, and cloud platforms—carries profound consequences for architectural computing. This feature explores how those silicon realities are redefining BIM’s future, and why adaptation is no longer optional.
INSIDER Only: How Silicon Will Decide BIM’s Future – Footnotes
Our Annotated Footnotes feature is a companion article to ‘End of an Era: How Silicon Will Decide BIM’s Future,’ exclusively for INSIDER members. The article ran first in Xpresso-4X on 18 December 2025.
Preview: End of an Era: How Silicon Will Decide BIM’s Future
‘How Silicon Will Decide the Future of BIM’ is an upcoming special feature that delves into where heterogeneous compute and voltage-limited era computing is taking the future of BIM and CAD


