Apple Silicon: The Passing of Wintel

Re:Apple Silicon: The Passing of Wintel by mNovak on Sunday July 12, 2020 @06:25PM (#23815279)

>> most of the small component industry

It's not glamorous, but Texas Instruments still operates a pile of fabs in the US, and is well positioned for the anticipated IoT boom.

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Re:Apple Silicon: The Passing of Wintel by lmm on Monday July 13, 2020 @03:55AM (#23818265)

Are they though? You can buy a fairly nice old-school TI microcontroller - or you can buy an ARM with enough onboard RAM to run Java, program it like you're writing a phone app, and pay a similar price. Battery consumption will be worse, but are your users going to notice?

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Re:Apple Silicon: The Passing of Wintel by mNovak on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @02:18AM (#23829085)

>> Battery consumption will be worse, but are your users going to notice?

If it's IOT, yes definitely. Some things you don't want to plug in every day--they have to run 10yrs on battery. TI is pretty good in that space.

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Re:Apple Silicon: The Passing of Wintel by jononor on Monday July 13, 2020 @04:34AM (#23818518)

TI has a reasonable set of ARM microcontroller offerings in the TM4C lineup. Nothing unique but plenty workable.

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