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  • Apple unveils plans to ditch Intel chips in Macs for 'Apple Silicon'

    morkymorky
    I thought it was interesting that the transition strategy was an exact mirror of 2005, with virtualization added. This will be far easier, though, with Carbon long dead and all apps 64 bit. No 2-year wait for native Photoshop.
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  • Apple unveils plans to ditch Intel chips in Macs for 'Apple Silicon'

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    karmadave said:
    I remain skeptical. Not because I don't think Apple can pull this off. They've done it 2x before so clearly they can. Consumers probably won't notice any difference other than better battery life, etc. Will large corporations buy any laptop that doesn't have an x86 compatible processor? Clearly they buy lots of iPhones and iPads so perhaps. Fortunately for Apple the Mac is a small portion of their overall revenue so the risk is relatively small. Especially compared to their last major transition when Mac was the majority of their revenue. This is a multi-year adventure so it will be interesting to follow Apple's progress.
    I see no reason a large corporation would care about x86 compatibility for a Mac.
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  • Apple unveils plans to ditch Intel chips in Macs for 'Apple Silicon'

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    johnbear said:
    Sad! grab an Intel Mac Pro while you can. ARM Macs will be inferior in performance. 

    They just demoed Maya running in emulation on a year-old chip designed for a thermally-constrained, fanless enclosure. MacBook Pros and Mac Pros will have chips designed for MacOS and Apple's compiler. Also imagine how powerful a chip they could create with active cooling. I expect they will destroy Intel in performance.
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  • Apple transition to own ARM chips in Macs rumored to start at WWDC

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    jharner said:
    If macOS for ARM does not support the UNIX side, then the Mac in STEM will be dead. If macOS for ARM does not support a hypervisor for Docker, etc., then the Mac in STEM will be on life support. The data sciences are moving to containerization with Docker, Singularity, etc. and support of these technologies will be critical. Now, lack of support for CUDA is a big problem. In principal, Docker on ARM is supported, but it will be tricky even if Apple supports it. I would hate to think of moving to Windows Subsystem for Linux.
    It will be the exact same OS compiled for ARM. There will be no difference in UNIX support.
    tht

  • Apple's Phil Schiller and Anand Shimpi tease details of A13 Bionic chip

    morkymorky
    I miss Anand. There is nothing like his A-series articles since he went to Apple. 
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