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by uyuioi 2278 days ago
Come on Apple. Time to move to AMD!
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wyldfire 2278 days ago
If you believe the rumors, it sounds like they're moving to their own CPU designs. Maybe the Mac Pro would stay x86_64 though?
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lukevp 2278 days ago
Apple's most likely going to move to custom ARM processors for a lot of their laptops.
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flatiron 2278 days ago
Catalina dropping 32 bit support screams to me the next MacOS will support ARM with a Rosetta like amd64 translation layer.
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millstone 2278 days ago
Maybe not Rosetta-like as Apple now controls the chip design? Perhaps Nvidia Denver style.
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flatiron 2276 days ago
i didn't know about that. just read the wikipedia article and nvidia wanted to support x86 but intel wouldn't let them use their patents. i would be SUPER surprised if that wasn't the same with Apple.
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dannyw 2278 days ago
Apple is ruthless with their suppliers. I imagine Intel is selling chips for AMD-level pricing to Apple.
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Insanity 2278 days ago
Which wouldn't necessarily be a bad deal. I mean, disregarding the current situation (covid), I'm pretty sure that Apple can argue from a guaranteed number of sales pov.
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arvinsim 2278 days ago
> Which wouldn't necessarily be a bad deal.

Maybe for them. But maybe not for consumers.

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Insanity 2277 days ago
Defo talking about the company p.o.v ;-)
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