Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production for Mac

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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