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

Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by pertsix on Monday April 02, 2018 @02:17PM (#16737443)

Not having to emulate iOS apps on macOS will be a boon for Xcode developers.

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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by adamson on Monday April 02, 2018 @02:21PM (#16737497)

I doubt iOS devs are very high up on the list of parties to please with this move

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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by jluxenberg on Monday April 02, 2018 @02:32PM (#16737649)

iOS apps do not run via emulation on macOS; they are compiled for x86_64 and run as a normal process.

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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by tinus_hn on Monday April 02, 2018 @03:54PM (#16738630)

And it’s actually a pre that every iOS app works on multiple architectures. If Apple ever wants to change iOS to run on a different type of CPU it’ll be easy.

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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by gsnedders on Monday April 02, 2018 @04:57PM (#16739209)

And they've already made advantage of that, with the move from A32 to A64.

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