Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Replacing Intel

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Post by uptown » Mon, Apr 02, 2018, 5:50 PM UTC

Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Replacing Intel
bloomberg.com

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Post by haakon » Mon, Apr 02, 2018, 5:53 PM UTC

Intel stock is down 7.3% currently.

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Post by searine » Mon, Apr 02, 2018, 5:53 PM UTC

Because that worked so well last time?

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Post by justherefortart » Mon, Apr 02, 2018, 5:56 PM UTC

Great, we can go back to the macrumors nonsense about how this PPC is "just as fast" as the x86 days.

With their focus on iOS vs MacOS, this doesn't surprise me. MacOS will simply die once they port their tools to iOS.

Terrible choice IMO.

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Post by fancyfacebook » Mon, Apr 02, 2018, 5:57 PM UTC

I wonder if they will be ARM only or if there is some sort of x86 solution built in too. This report has basically zero info.

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Post by erric » Mon, Apr 02, 2018, 5:58 PM UTC

My questions:

ARM? Walled garden of an app ecosystem? Command line?

There has been convergence between iOS and MacOS for a while now.

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Post by Talyen42 » Mon, Apr 02, 2018, 5:59 PM UTC

I think this was inevitable given the insane YoY performance increase we've seen from A-series chips.

Anyone want to chime in on why Intel can't get more than 5% YoY while Apple has been getting 30-40%?

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Post by mitchty » Mon, Apr 02, 2018, 5:59 PM UTC

fancyfacebook wrote: post #5

I wonder if they will be ARM only or if there is some sort of x86 solution built in too. This report has basically zero info.

Its hardly a report. It is at best a rumor.

My strategy with any apple news: ignore it until its released or said from the horses mouth. Remember the iphones that had clickwheels like ipod rumors prior to the iphone? Thats what I consider this.

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Post by justinzollars » Mon, Apr 02, 2018, 5:59 PM UTC

I'm pretty happy with my Xeon.

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Post by masklinn » Mon, Apr 02, 2018, 5:59 PM UTC

searine wrote: post #3

Because that worked so well last time?

When they decided to make their own ARM chips and went on to build the best mobile implementation by a pretty long shot?