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Come on Apple. Time to move to AMD!

• lukevp 7y ago
  Apple's most likely going to move to custom ARM processors for a lot of their laptops.
  • flatiron 7y ago
    Catalina dropping 32 bit support screams to me the next MacOS will support ARM with a Rosetta like amd64 translation layer.
    • millstone 7y ago
      Maybe not Rosetta-like as Apple now controls the chip design? Perhaps Nvidia Denver style.
      • flatiron 7y ago
        i didn't know about that. just read the wikipedia article and nvidia wanted to support x86 but intel wouldn't let them use their patents. i would be SUPER surprised if that wasn't the same with Apple.
• wyldfire 7y ago
  If you believe the rumors, it sounds like they're moving to their own CPU designs. Maybe the Mac Pro would stay x86_64 though?
• dannyw 7y ago
  Apple is ruthless with their suppliers. I imagine Intel is selling chips for AMD-level pricing to Apple.
  • Insanity 7y ago
    Which wouldn't necessarily be a bad deal. I mean, disregarding the current situation (covid), I'm pretty sure that Apple can argue from a guaranteed number of sales pov.
    • arvinsim 7y ago
      > Which wouldn't necessarily be a bad deal. Maybe for them. But maybe not for consumers.
      • Insanity 7y ago
        Defo talking about the company p.o.v ;-)