Apple Inc. is planning to use its own chips in Mac computers beginning as early as 2020, replacing processors from Intel Corp., according to people familiar with the plans.
The initiative, code named Kalamata, is still in the early developmental stages, but comes as part of a larger strategy to make all of Apple's devices -- including Macs, iPhones, and iPads -- work more similarly and seamlessly together, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private information. The project, which executives have approved, will likely result in a multi-step transition.
The shift would be a blow to Intel, whose partnership helped revive Apple's Mac success and linked the chipmaker to one of the leading brands in electronics. Apple provides Intel with about 5 percent of its annual revenue, according to Bloomberg supply chain analysis.
Intel shares dropped as much as 9.2 percent, the biggest intraday drop in more than two years, on the news. They were down 6.4 percent at $48.75 at 3:30 p.m. in New York.
No interest in Apple hardware but it would be interesting to see how they implement a hybrid Desktop/Tablet OS DE. I'm sure Ubuntu and Gnome will follow.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Nerdfest on Tuesday April 03 2018, @02:02PM (2 children)
Silly me, thinking that if one is truly aiming for compatibility across devices it could (and should) be done in software using APIs, allowing things to work even across completely different operating systems. You'd only do it in hardware if you actually just wanted to lock people .... oh ..... never mind.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday April 03 2018, @06:20PM (1 child)
Oh noes, but if everything was a script, then these apps would become open source, and show their inner workings, and that would be so terrible - if you're evil or incompetent. So don't be evil or incompetent, problem solved.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday April 03 2018, @09:17PM
Like the JRE?
In 1999 my client asked me to figure out why has SPARC server kept crashing. Java web applications should not be able to do that.
Five minutes later I told him that his box was running out of swap space because his Java was leaking vast quantities of memory. Two more minutes and cron rebooted his box every night at midnight.
The software manager took me out for lunch so we could plot and scheme in secret. Upon our return, he and I both informed my client that we would be rewriting his web application completely from scratch.
That client made $1.5 million by selling his dot-com during the dot-com boom. He now rents out spare rooms in his house because that's the only way he can keep his own rent paid.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]