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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by crazygringo on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @02:34PM (#26959676)
But since so much software these days is cross-platform, apps/sites will still have to work performantly on Intel chips. E.g. Google can't slow down Chrome to take advantage of Mac speed increases, because it would become unusable on Windows.

So I actually think that Mac software will hold the performance edge for a long, long time.

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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by nexuist on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @03:00PM (#26960006)
It logically makes sense for Windows to move to ARM as well at this point. They already ported it with Windows RT, and now all they have to do is provide a translation layer like Rosetta and release the full Windows experience (instead of the locked down version RT was).
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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by crazygringo on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @05:28PM (#26961817)
But there's no M1 chip equivalent for PC's.

It's fine to have an ARM version of Windows but there's no equivalently high-performance ARM chip to run it on. Unless you're talking about Bootcamp on Macs.

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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by _carbyau_ on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @10:10PM (#26964635)
Any reason why Intel and AMD can't do an ARM chip?

I have a vague tickle in my memory that both Intel and AMD have dabbled in ARM before.

Even if they don't assign large production volumes to it now, they could still have a design team working on it for a contingency plan.

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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by kalleboo on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @12:12AM (#26965503)
AMD was developing an ARM core "K12" in parallel with the Zen core. K12 was delayed in order to prioritize Zen, Zen turned out to be a massive hit, so K12 got delayed indefinitely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_K12

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_(first_generation_microarc...

Once Apple released M1, rumors of AMD ARM development started again https://www.techspot.com/news/87851-amd-rumored-working-arm-...

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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by floatboth on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @09:07PM (#26964162)
Microsoft went with Qualcomm, but indeed it's not-that-high performance. (Even the "new" 8cx gen2, also rebranded as Microsoft SQ2, is still basically an 855… The situation will improve somewhat with an 888 based chip.)
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