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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by mcphage on Monday April 02, 2018 @02:11PM (#16737365)
> significant work by third parties outside Apple who haven't even heard of the possibility of this happening until today

I dunno, I feel like the writing has been on the wall for Apple to switch to their own ARM chips, for 3 or 4 years now. At first it was "yeah maybe someday", but by this point, I'm just surprised they're waiting until 2020. I was hoping the first ARM Macbooks would be this summer. (Really, last summer, if I'm being honest).

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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by jernfrost on Monday April 02, 2018 @02:39PM (#16737745)
Agree this was obviously something that was going to happen. My prediction was 2019 tough. My thoughts was that they probably wanted to get more developers over to using bitcode first as well as ARM being almost at desired performance but not quite there yet.

In 2020 I doubt anyone will see any problems with ARM performance on a desktop or laptop.

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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by stiGGG on Monday April 02, 2018 @09:04PM (#16741013)
I remember Chris Lattner giving some details to bitcode a while ago and according to him it's not possible to recompile an app for a different architecture having only the so called bitcode.

Edit: Found the source: http://atp.fm/205-chris-lattner-interview-transcript/#bitcod...

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