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I on the other hand hope that Apple will stay away from x86. If they started co-op with AMD it would be a matter of time AMD would have to produce special vers

• AnthonyMouse 6y ago
  > it would be a matter of time AMD would have to produce special versions of processors that only Apple could purchase How is that supposed to affect anybody else who is still buying the regular stuff, or be better for Apple customers than the same thing but with an architecture transition and the inability to natively virtualize the x64 editions of Windows and Linux? > and a lot of manufacturing power would have been wasted on Macs making it more expensive for other people. Apple and AMD are both TSMC customers. They come out of the same fabs.
  • varispeed 6y ago
    > How is that supposed to affect anybody else who is still buying the regular stuff, or be better for Apple customers than the same thing but with an architecture transition and the inability to natively virtualize the x64 editions of Windows and Linux? For one, these CPUs would make the fabs busy, that means AMD would produce less CPUs for the "masses" and probably that would make it more expensive for everyone. I think the inability to virtualize would kind of fit the walled garden Apple is going for. > Apple and AMD are both TSMC customers. They come out of the same fabs. It's not like you can produce different CPUs at the same time. It requires setup and probably particular fab is able to produce one type of CPU in a batch. The TSMC resources are finite as well.