Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs

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Post by happyopossum » Mon, Jun 22, 2020, 6:32 PM UTC

Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs
theverge.com

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Post by jdhn » Mon, Jun 22, 2020, 6:37 PM UTC

I was interested by the GPU that was mentioned in the slide, does this mean that Apple is thinking that they have the expertise to take on Nvidia and AMD in that space?

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Post by bdz » Mon, Jun 22, 2020, 6:42 PM UTC

edit: why the downvotes? legit curious

I'm curious about the future, especially games, if they want to take on consoles.

PS4 and XboxOne are 7 years old and while the next gen looks really good Apple can refresh the productline much quicker (on the other hand it's a good question if people really would want to buy a new console say every year because Apple sure will be aggressive pushing out new models much more frequently)

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Post by viro » Mon, Jun 22, 2020, 6:42 PM UTC

am I stupid? how are they running a x86 vm on ARM...

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Post by nouveaux » Mon, Jun 22, 2020, 6:43 PM UTC

jdhn wrote: post #2

I was interested by the GPU that was mentioned in the slide, does this mean that Apple is thinking that they have the expertise to take on Nvidia and AMD in that space?

Whether or not they think that or they can, they have been developing GPUs for iOS devices. It'll be interesting to see what they do for their desktops.

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Post by nouveaux » Mon, Jun 22, 2020, 6:44 PM UTC

It's interesting that their official virtualization support (in the demo) is Parallels.

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Post by donarb » Mon, Jun 22, 2020, 6:44 PM UTC

viro wrote: post #4

am I stupid? how are they running a x86 vm on ARM...

Rosetta. Apple knows processors, ARM is just a licensed instruction set.

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Post by ericzawo » Mon, Jun 22, 2020, 6:44 PM UTC

I really wonder if this will result in the Mac-ification of iPad. Would love to finally run a MacOS environment on a tablet.

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Post by monocasa » Mon, Jun 22, 2020, 6:45 PM UTC

viro wrote: post #4

am I stupid? how are they running a x86 vm on ARM...

Are they, or is it an aarch64 build of Linux they showed?

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Post by ebg13 » Mon, Jun 22, 2020, 6:45 PM UTC

viro wrote: post #4

am I stupid? how are they running a x86 vm on ARM...

The same way they ran m68k code on PowerPC CPUs and PowerPC code on x86 CPUs.