Apple announces moving away from Intel CPUs

[Mr_Roboto]

Utterly fascinating. We may see a post X86 world yet.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/3/17191986/apple-intel-cpu-processor-design-competition

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[blakbearddelite]

In unrelated news, Intel's stock drops 10%.

 

[MikeyLikesIt]

They already struggle to find vendors to create native OSX software for the MAC, this will make it worse. At least Apple will still have Adobe.

 

[nytebyte]

They won't even have that.

At work, all of our hard-core Adobe systems are running Windows 10 with Intel i7's.

 

[Chet Donnelly]

People still buy Apple computers?

 

[blakbearddelite]

Of course, Apple has slowed down the old computers to push people into getting new ones.

 

[bikrboy128]

so the "old" (current) intel based macs are now obsolete and will no longer get updates? cool.
also, all the current applications that are x86 based will have to be rewritten to work? or will they be run with emulation?

to me this a stupid money grab. but then again i dont care. i'd never buy an inferior mac computer, intel based or otherwise.

 

[Fish]

Did you not read? Microsoft and Google are looking into creating their own chips as well.

 

[bikrboy128]

im not sure what i missed, who cares about microsoft and google when talking about apple consumer PCs.

 

[Chester Copperpot]

to me this a stupid money grab. but then again i dont care. i'd never buy an inferior mac computer, intel based or otherwise.

To be fair, so is Intel with requiring all their new processors to use their new chipsets and older mobos with older chipsets are incompatible with "new" Intel processors despite still being 14nm with the exact same LGA 1151 sockets.

It's all a money grab.

 

[Fish]

im not sure what i missed, who cares about microsoft and google when talking about apple consumer PCs.

Last I checked Google and MS also make their own hardware, along with Apple. If everyone made their owns hardware and software, GHZ and RAM are just numbers and doesnt show how optimized something is. Dont believe me, look at cell phone data now. iPhones had "less ram and 2013 Samsung tech" yet still outscored GS8 phones on benchmarks.

Imagine the crazy stuff all 3 could do. Not JUST Apple.

To be fair, so is Intel with requiring all their new processors to use their new chipsets and older mobos with older chipsets are incompatible with "new" Intel processors despite still being 14nm with the exact same LGA 1151 sockets.

It's all a money grab.

Yeah, I was getting a little pissed when putting my shit together and running into those issues.

 

[Chet Donnelly]

Last I checked Google and MS also make their own hardware, along with Apple.

None of them make their own hardware...

 

[Fish]

None of them make their own hardware...

No? They dont? Who makes the Surface again? I could have also sworn Google makes their own phones. Which according to the article, all 3 are looking at chips for other than phones. Stating that ARM chipsets are getting powerful enough to rival mobile Intel chips. Hence why they could/would start making more mobile PC solutions.

Which is smart for all 3 actually.

 

[Fish]

Something better than a Chromebook, faster than current laptops, sipping less power, and running the same stuff you need.

All without needing Intel, unless they start innovating again.

 

[Chet Donnelly]

No? They dont? Who makes the Surface again? I could have also sworn Google makes their own phones. Which according to the article, all 3 are looking at chips for other than phones. Stating that ARM chipsets are getting powerful enough to rival mobile Intel chips. Hence why they could/would start making more mobile PC solutions.

Which is smart for all 3 actually.

When I was still at CDW Pegatron was manufacturing the Surface. I assume they still are. HTC and LG manufacture Google's phones.

 

[Fish]

They still are. Just like FoxConn still does iPhones and other electronics, but are designed by their respective corporations. Like Microsoft and Apple.