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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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