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There are 70 million active MacOS users, and closing in on a billion iOS users. MacOS and the hardware that runs it is an afterthought for Apple, they just want
by metildaa 8y ago
There are 70 million active MacOS users, and closing in on a billion iOS users. MacOS and the hardware that runs it is an afterthought for Apple, they just want to keep it somewhat alive.
Redeveloping for a new ISA was feasible when it was a life or death move Apple had to make to stay up with the rapidly improving PC world.
As is Apple will likely build a customized Ryzen chip with the AMD secure enclave cut out if they want to do anything for their MacOS line of products. China literally bought the full design for Ryzen for $300 million, a custom chip would be well below that cost.
- jeffbax 8y agoApple will almost certainly not switch to AMD rather than going all in on ARM, as much as I wish I had a Ryzen Mac option. Also Apple having $50B in revenue vs $500m for ARM doesn't mean they would be guaranteed to out execute the entire loosely federated ecosystem starting from scratch. It's possible I suppose, but is unlikely to be a more efficient way to allocate financial resources.