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I don’t think the switch is about Apple providing better performance, thermal efficiency or anything like that. I think it’s simply cost control. Consumer Intel
by CapriciousCptl 6y ago
I don’t think the switch is about Apple providing better performance, thermal efficiency or anything like that. I think it’s simply cost control. Consumer Intel chips haven’t improved much better in a long time but they still command an enormous profit margin. And since Apple controls the compiler toolchain along with the OS and much of the other hardware, it can make the switch without the consumers it cares about the most noticing.
- m463 6y agosecurity/boot control might be more under control. There might be more unknowable attack surface with someone else's management unit as part of the boot stuff and around your T2.
- tonyedgecombe 6y agoApple have often suffered when it comes to external dependencies. That might have been when IBM failed to keep PowerPC competitive, Microsoft Office lagged on the Mac or now when Intel are struggling. The rumours are that several Mac releases have been delayed because of supply problems, the newly released 13" MacBook is shipping with previous revision chips in the low end models. When you take this into account it's easy to see why dumping Intel is attractive to them.