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Apple will use its own CPUs and will move away from Intel/x86
| If they do custom x86, it will be interesting. If arm, they'll fuck up macs even more than they already are
| They are already too proprietary, that would just be another step in the wrong direction
| As far as cpu's go if you can't do <30 nm you're out ou the competition. Allthou externally manufactured in house design might be a way to go, in otherwords: designet by apple made by intel/amd.
| For developers it will be a turnoff. Switching hardware platform is more than naming a new cpu architecture. A lot of things break more often than not, the old tools and software is useless, everything needs to be replaced because different hw means also different binary exes.
And the users? But why, they will buy all software new again of course. If they will not be happy with an emulation/compatibility layer performance wise. Ok to listen to mp3s, not ok when video editing.
| >>d4e198 yeah but those are arms. You can just buy the core, with x86/amd64 you'd have to make your own.
| If they did something like m$ did(?) Where you can run x86 on arm I'd be in favor of a high core count arm cpu instead
| >>214211 that's such a bad implementation, I wouldn't even count it. Visualizing and emulation should be an edge case, not standard
| Interesting to say the least, Apple has been succesful with their ARM cpus, maybe they'll finally fix MacOS if they do switch.
| Let's not forget apple already has experience with migrating macos across from PPC to X86/Amd64. And from what I've heard, Rosetta (iirc that's what their translation layer was called) worked pretty well. If m$ is doing x86 on arm (despite being utterly trash at it) apple has the resources and experience of pulling something like this in a better implementation. Plus apples arm socs are miles better than anything qc has RN.
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| This is supposed to happen at 2020.
How do you all feel about it, and what do you think about it?