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There are rumours of Apple being interested with RISC-V. May be MacBook 2030 will feature it.
by vbezhenar 5y ago
There are rumours of Apple being interested with RISC-V. May be MacBook 2030 will feature it.
- snvzz 5y agoApple posted job advertisements looking for RISC-V technical roles. What they plan to do with them is unknown, but Apple has the cash flow to try a lot of things. I would expect them to quickly adopt it for embedded applications, and experiment with making their own high performance design, including porting MacOS and Rosetta Stone. They can afford to do this much, regardless of whether they end up moving their main CPUs to RISC-V or not.
- unfocussed_mike 5y agoYep. There's surely a bunch of uses of RISC-V that have little or nothing to do with the main CPU, even in a conventional machine. Trust modules, device controllers, smart adapter cables etc.
- jhickok 5y agoFor what it's worth, Apple always has people on hand monitoring innovations in technology and testing their stack on new hardware, most of which never sees the light of day.
- Macha 5y agoSee OS X on Intel being a thing inside Apple for years and years before they decided it should see the light of day.
- throwawayboise 5y agoNEXTSTEP was multi-architecture even before Apple owned it.
- m463 5y agoI would imagine apple actually ships hundreds of devices with processors - each dongle and peripheral has at least one.
- Melatonic 5y agoProbably for future research if they intend to try to smear campaign it :-)
- mhh__ 5y agoApple had a big part in aarch64 being what it is today so I am quite skeptical they'd just jump ship. I might be making this up (I can't remember the company) but I'm pretty sure at least one chip designer has moved from risc-v to arm. It's not clearcut.