Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs

Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by andy_ppp on Monday June 22, 2020 @05:33PM (#23607014)

I actually think total battery life will go up a fair bit and compile times will be much faster, 20-30%, while giving everyone full power when not on the mains. The amount my MacBook throttles when on battery is startling and stopping that while still giving huge battery life, say 6h at 80% CPU will be a huge win. Apple wouldn’t bother unless they knew the benefits they can bring over the next 10 years will be huge.

All of this is complete speculation of course but I don’t believe it will be a financial decision this one, it’ll be about creating better products.

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by santoshalper on Monday June 22, 2020 @06:06PM (#23607426)

Multi-core performance is not a strong suit of Apple's ARM architecture, I suspect you're going to see a mild to moderate performance hit for things like compilation.

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by nicoburns on Monday June 22, 2020 @06:52PM (#23607876)

The rumours are that they're doubling the number of high-performance cores for the laptop chips (so 8 high performance cores and 4 low-power cores). That + better cooling ought to boost the multi-core performance quite significantly.

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by npunt on Monday June 22, 2020 @06:20PM (#23607566)

Thats mostly because of thermals, which are drastically different on Mac.

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by gsnedders on Monday June 22, 2020 @09:18PM (#23608970)

Is their multi-core performance poor, or have they just made size/power trade-offs against increasing the number of cores? The iPad Pro SoCs are literally the only parts they've made so far with four big cores.

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