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My wild prediction: Apple will remain using x86, but based on AMD chips and integrating stuff like ML, security, etc. Both of them use TSMC as foundry.
by mromanuk 6y ago
My wild prediction: Apple will remain using x86, but based on AMD chips and integrating stuff like ML, security, etc. Both of them use TSMC as foundry.
- api 6y agoA Ryzen MacBook Pro is a dream machine for me. I think its unlikely though.
- adamfeldman 6y agoCame to say something similar. I’d love to see some kind of hybrid x86-ARM system that is able to retain the value of Apple’s x86 investments while also leveraging Apple’s deep ARM investments in the PC product lines.
- adamfeldman 6y agoHyperscaler servers (eg AWS Nitro) have dedicated hypervisor processors, and then customer workloads run on another processor. Imagine this architecture in a PC: macOS as “hypervisor” and applications as the user workload.