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Finally a company has the guts to move us from the straitjacket of x86. I hope this is just the beginning of much needed innovation in CPU architecture. Due to
by coliveira 6y ago
Finally a company has the guts to move us from the straitjacket of x86. I hope this is just the beginning of much needed innovation in CPU architecture. Due to the MS/Intel duopoly we had to suffer x86 for decades with few real options.
- pram 6y ago2020 is finally the year of RISC on the desktop
- vaxman 6y agouh, no. Well, maybe... “ On Friday, September 1, 2017, after a round of layoffs that started in Oracle Labs in November 2016, Oracle terminated SPARC design after the completion of the M8. Much of the processor core development group in Austin, Texas, was dismissed, as were the teams in Santa Clara, California, and Burlington, Massachusetts.[4][5] SPARC development continues with Fujitsu returning to the role of leading provider of SPARC servers, with a new CPU due in the 2020 time frame.”
- vaxman 6y agoHow long before 2020 Fujitsu rebinned SPARC chips are sold to OEMs for SPARCstations runnin’ popOS? It’s not like System76 is going to be able to buy M1s (dang sounds like a weapon when you put it that way ) and Ryzen might not compete with near term successors to M1.
- pjmlp 6y agoI thought it was during the 80's and early 90's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics#RISC_era https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics#RISC_era https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-UX#BL_series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-UX#BL_series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARCstation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARCstation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT#1987%E2%80%9393:_NeXT_Computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT#1987%E2%80%9393:_NeXT_Com... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeBox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeBox
- PopePompus 6y agoI think the M1 macs are the first really significant product that Apple has introduced since Steve Job's death.
- twoodfin 6y agoApple Watch put a Unix computer with a 16-hour battery life, an LTE modem & multiple health sensors on my wrist. I’d count that as significant.
- PopePompus 6y agoWell, I respectfully disagree. The Apple Watch is a successful product, but it really didn't completely disrupt a large existing industry like the iPhone did. I think it's possible that the M1 will trigger the death of x86 personal computers. If that happens, it won't have been an iPhone-level disruption, but it will be a lot more significant than the watch.
- GeekyBear 6y ago> The Apple Watch is a successful product, but it really didn't completely disrupt a large existing industry For some values of large? >Apple now sells more watches than the entire Swiss watch industry https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/5/21125565/apple-watch-sales-2019-swiss-watch-market-estimates-outsold https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/5/21125565/apple-watch-sales...
- lern_too_spel 6y agoThe Swiss watch industry isn't what it was. Most people I know don't wear a watch.
- simonh 6y agoWait, where did the goal posts go. Has anyone seen them? I swear they were here a minute ago.
- pjmlp 6y agoBeware what you wish for.
- absolutelyrad 6y agoI see future regrets. ARM based chips tend to be a close ecosystem.