Re:The iPhone's new chip should worry Intel
by hyperpallium on Saturday September 17, 2016 @05:10AM
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They've changed before (from PowerPC).
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Re:The iPhone's new chip should worry Intel
by innocenat on Saturday September 17, 2016 @05:19AM
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Changing to Intel are kinda easy, because applications (think Photoshop, etc) already has optimized code for x86 (think SSE/AVX and such, which are hand-coded). While undoubtedly many also has NEON nowadays, I still think it is on different scale.
Re:The iPhone's new chip should worry Intel
by acdha on Saturday September 17, 2016 @10:46AM
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One other factor is the degree to which hand-optimized code in general has been going away: Apple heavily encouraged people to use system frameworks like CoreImage, CoreVideo, etc. both to ease the transition and to take advantage of their significant optimizations, and that appears to have been followed by many developers. Adobe presumably still has a whopping case of Not-Invented-Here but I'd be surprised if a significant number of apps couldn't be ported with very modest changes.