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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by rsynnott on Friday April 23, 2021 @02:09PM (#26917465)
> Apple have ever focused on processor like this before

Eh, I'm not sure that's true. They did with the original PPC, and also the G3 and G5.

Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by watersb on Friday April 23, 2021 @09:33PM (#26921401)
PowerPC was also IBM and Motorola.

It's difficult to compare the Apple Silicon versus PowerPC, because the new Apple hardware is far more ambitious, the whole platform. I would expect that the memory SSD controllers are to some degree licensed from other industry players. The CPU architecture is something else again. Issues eight instructions per clock -- per core. The M1 core design has more in common with IBM mainframe POWER9 than with a typical x86 core. It's remarkable to see this design ina low end consumer device. A mobile.