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You have to wonder if you can eg get a cheap enough AMD chip that you stick an Apple Axx and an AMD laptop chip in the low-end laptops to manage the transition.
by x0x0 7y ago
You have to wonder if you can eg get a cheap enough AMD chip that you stick an Apple Axx and an AMD laptop chip in the low-end laptops to manage the transition.
- jmull 7y agoI'm thinking Apple will drop a couple x64 cores into an Ax chip. Maybe they license from AMD. Probably impossible, but I wonder if something clever could be done at the microcode level (mostly) so that a core could switch instruction sets. The Apple ARM instruction set would be the native, optimized one, but the x64 IS would run acceptably.