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 kllrnohj on Monday April 02, 2018 @04:22PM (#16738916)

> The current A11 chips for iPhones are within 10% of Intel's top mobile chips on Geekbench

No, they aren't. iPhone X's multithreaded geekbench score is 10k. The 15" macbook pro is 15k. That's a lot more than 10%. It's only close if you look at the lower end Intel chips, the dual core ones (which is what Apple ships in the 13" macbook pro).

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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by mozumder on Monday April 02, 2018 @04:34PM (#16739018)

Those are multi-core numbers, not the single-core numbers.

What do you think is the most important for 250million desktop users? Because the vast majority of them are sitting idle waiting for interaction tasks, like on your system now.

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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by michaelmrose on Monday April 02, 2018 @05:34PM (#16739585)

Even browsers are doing a better job of loading multiple cores now and desktop machines often have more processes running in the background.

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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by kllrnohj on Monday April 02, 2018 @05:12PM (#16739361)

> Because the vast majority of them are sitting idle waiting for interaction tasks, like on your system now.

My dual Xeon E5-2690 v4 regularly loads all its cores and benefits greatly from them, but keep making assumptions by all means.

But if all you want is a chromebook competitor then sure, A11-class works fine. I'm going to guess that the people using Mac Pros tend to care a bit more about just running Chrome/Safari, though. Maybe Apple is just going to completely give up on their historically strong content creation market.

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