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A comment on Why Apple ditched PowerPC, and what it says about Apple ditching Intel. Parent comment
In addition to the underlying architectures to implement them.
It's not inconceivable that Intel simply made enough arch / process / design mistakes that they've ended up at the end of a performance box canyon.
It's happened before. Pentium 4 was a deadend, while Pentium M-derived architectures continued to improve performance.
So "Apple realizing continued gains by optimizing a less mature architecture" is one hypothesis.
But "Apple realizing continued gains by optimizing a more evolveable architecture" is a valid alternative.
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In addition to the underlying architectures to implement them.
It's not inconceivable that Intel simply made enough arch / process / design mistakes that they've ended up at the end of a performance box canyon.
It's happened before. Pentium 4 was a deadend, while Pentium M-derived architectures continued to improve performance.
So "Apple realizing continued gains by optimizing a less mature architecture" is one hypothesis.
But "Apple realizing continued gains by optimizing a more evolveable architecture" is a valid alternative.