Re:Intel's Process Roadmap to 2025: with 4nm, 3nm, 20A and 18A?
by rbanffy on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @12:44PM
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> it would take a sea change for Apple Silicon to take over
Not really.
Over my career I used x86, MIPS, PPC, SPARC, x86, and ARM machines. With the exception of x86 Windows boxes, they all looked and felt mostly the same. The Mac in front of me and the Linux laptop to my left incidentally use x86 CPUs but, at the core, they are both Unix-like machines and that's what I use them for. I don't care about binary compatibility and what ISA the machine uses inside it.
Not really.
Over my career I used x86, MIPS, PPC, SPARC, x86, and ARM machines. With the exception of x86 Windows boxes, they all looked and felt mostly the same. The Mac in front of me and the Linux laptop to my left incidentally use x86 CPUs but, at the core, they are both Unix-like machines and that's what I use them for. I don't care about binary compatibility and what ISA the machine uses inside it.