Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers

Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by willyt on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @04:23AM (#25056864)

Isn’t this a RISC vs CISC thing though? AMD and Intel use a lot of complicated stuff to emulate the x86 instructions with a VM running on a RISC core. Apple controls hardware and software including LLVM so they compile efficient RISC code right from the get go. It’s their vertical integration thing again.

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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by JVIDEL on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @10:43AM (#25059257)

You got a point in the optimization part, it's difficult to compare both chips when you're running on completely different OSs, specially when one of them ruins a specially optimized OS like ios

The closest it could get I think would be running a variant of Unix optimized for the Ryzen.

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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by willyt on Thursday November 12, 2020 @10:18AM (#25070754)

RISC v CISC https://arstechnica.com/features/1999/10/rvc/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2008/05/risc-vs-cisc-mobile-...

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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by willyt on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @06:44AM (#25057551)

Don't just downvote me, explain. I'm asking because I'm interested. Why is my hypothesis wrong?

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