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 squarefoot on Monday April 02, 2018 @02:49PM (#16737881)

And cost. Making something you can license to others and/or sell to 250000 users each year has a completely different cost compared to something you use only on your 20000 machines (source: [1]). Macs are already overpriced, I don't know how much Apple could sustain an in-house production of proprietary chips without hitting their users; they're probably going to ARM.

[1]: https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS43495918

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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by nnnnnnnnnnnnn on Monday April 02, 2018 @03:43PM (#16738496)

I think you might have misread the table at the page you linked. Above the table, it says "Shipments are in thousands of units." According to the table, Apple shipped 20 million notebooks and desktops last year, not 20 thousand.

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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by squarefoot on Monday April 02, 2018 @07:01PM (#16740244)

Doh... Same proportions but yeah, damn language barrier, over here the comma and point meanings are reversed compared to English. Thanks!

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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by Bud on Monday April 02, 2018 @03:36PM (#16738410)

And the fact that Apple can already beat x86 on speed per unit of electricity with its own architecture.

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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by jiveturkey on Monday April 02, 2018 @11:07PM (#16741589)

that only matters for large data centers and mobile. for laptops and desktops raw power matters.

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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by Bud on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @07:40PM (#16750496)

Uh, actually not. It matters tremendously for laptops.

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