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Yeah... because nobody else makes ARM compatible chips. x86 is not an open ISA. For all practical purposes nobody besides intel and AMD can make x86 chips. Pr
by socialdemocrat 6y ago
Yeah... because nobody else makes ARM compatible chips.
x86 is not an open ISA. For all practical purposes nobody besides intel and AMD can make x86 chips.
Pretty much anybody can ask ARM to get a license to make ARM chip.
Sure Macs have special chips in addition but that is true for their intel offerings as well. You have never been able to just plop an AMD chip into a Mac so it is not like that choice ever meant anything to consumers.
- throw0101a 6y agoAnd what about disk controllers like the T2? How is that going to be emulated? The ARM ISA versus x86 ISA is probably the least complicated part of this equation. At least on x86 there were widely used graphics components that were leveraged. What exactly do we know about the built-in GPU on the M1?