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Re:The iPhone XS and XS Max Review: Unveiling the Silicon Se... by grecy on Friday October 05, 2018 @11:53AM (#18149103)
Given Apple can get so far ahead of the competition with ARM for small devices... I still think it's entirely possible they're going to make their own CPUs for desktop Macs, and that is the massive hold up on the "New Mac Pro 2019(ish)"
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Re:The iPhone XS and XS Max Review: Unveiling the Silicon Se... by ken on Friday October 05, 2018 @02:11PM (#18150351)
The last time they changed architectures, they stuffed a new motherboard in an old case, to let developers get ready for the change.

I think it's unlikely they'll update their flagship Mac to a new CPU architecture without notifying developers first. On day one, all existing apps would perform poorly, and that's not how you promote a new top-of-the-line system.

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Re:The iPhone XS and XS Max Review: Unveiling the Silicon Se... by tpetry on Friday October 05, 2018 @04:51PM (#18151638)
Except they do it like their transition to Intel and emulate all software with the old architecture. But their new architecture would have to be very much better than intel. Or maybe they transpile x86/64 to their arm Rchitecture.
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Re:The iPhone XS and XS Max Review: Unveiling the Silicon Se... by grecy on Saturday October 06, 2018 @12:13AM (#18153496)
Is there anything that stops them making their own x86-64 CPU?
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Re:The iPhone XS and XS Max Review: Unveiling the Silicon Se... by astrange on Saturday October 06, 2018 @08:20AM (#18154768)
Intel and AMD's patent pool would have to expire for anyone else to jump in.
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Re:The iPhone XS and XS Max Review: Unveiling the Silicon Se... by frou_dh on Friday October 05, 2018 @02:19PM (#18150414)
They're looking to win back workstation users, not alienate them further with a swathe of software compatibility issues.
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Re:The iPhone XS and XS Max Review: Unveiling the Silicon Se... by et2o on Saturday October 06, 2018 @03:04AM (#18153949)
I have not seen much evidence for this idea.
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