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There is zero chance that Apple doesn't have MacOS and iOS running on RISC-V in the lab. They did that with x86 and Arm half a decade before any announcement a
by brucehoult 2mo ago
There is zero chance that Apple doesn't have MacOS and iOS running on RISC-V in the lab.
They did that with x86 and Arm half a decade before any announcement about a switch, not to mention a number of other ISAs that didn't make it to shipping (e.g. M88k) and probably ones that word has never leaked about. IA64, anyone?
They're too large and rich and risk-averse to *not* do it.
- dmitrygr 2mo agoI do wonder, which of the two of us actually worked for years in Apple’s kernel team? :)
- brucehoult 2mo agoNot me for sure. I have no idea about you. Of household name companies I've only worked at Mozilla and Samsung R&D. And SiFive if you count people in threads such as this. I could of course be wrong but I think the publicly known history sets the pattern pretty reliably for the speculation.
- nxobject 2mo agoFWIW, since OP was, well, the OP: https://dmitry.gr/?r=01.Myself&proj=06.Work https://dmitry.gr/?r=01.Myself&proj=06.Work