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Re:The iPhone 5's A6 SoC: Not A15 or A9, a Custom Apple Core... by stusmall on Sunday September 16, 2012 @12:07AM (#4528201)
It wasn't too long ago that Sun SPARC systems were a thing. Still I agree, it isn't that often someone can scale vertically like this. Hopefully they do something interesting with it.

I'd love to see them use what they learn in the mobile space to push the boundaries in their workstation market and experiment with something outside x86. Since they've already been through the PPC->x86 jump it would be as painful of a transition both on the technical and the sales sides.

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Re:The iPhone 5's A6 SoC: Not A15 or A9, a Custom Apple Core... by dragonsky on Sunday September 16, 2012 @01:25AM (#4528348)
I think you would find that in moving the apple workstations away from x86 would cause them a lot of pain as they would lose all those that use the apple hardware to run both OSX and Windows. I would assume that Linux would be available for any future architecture but that can by no means guaranteed.
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