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Question: Would ARM chips be suitable for, say, five-years-from-today iMacs? What would be the differentes between ARM and Intel? Note: I don't know anything a

• hga 17y ago
  32 vs. 64 bits is the biggest relevant one for the desktop market. 32 bits (with a special extra low power 16 bit mode) is great for the mobile market, but wouldn't be worth it for a Mac CPU change over. I suppose Apple might do this to fund a 64 bit ARM, but that strikes me as unlikely. Especially since ARM would stand to lose a lot of business from Apple's competitors, if other companies could come up with compelling CPU/watt stories. On the order of 10 billion (thousand million) ARM CPUs are shipping per year....