Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel
by slantyyz on Monday June 22, 2020 @09:19AM
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> The problem is that I'm guessing Apple wants to move to their own ARM not for more compute, but more power efficiency.
I'm guessing the switch is for those reasons, plus a more important one (my opinion only), control.
If they use their own chips, they're not stuck waiting on Intel (or any other x86 CPU manufacturer) to build CPUs that have the attributes that matter to them the most.
I'm guessing the switch is for those reasons, plus a more important one (my opinion only), control.
If they use their own chips, they're not stuck waiting on Intel (or any other x86 CPU manufacturer) to build CPUs that have the attributes that matter to them the most.