CNet:
Apple will start selling Macs that use in-house processors in 2021, based on ones in upcoming iPhones and iPad Pros, Bloomberg reported Thursday. The company is apparently working on three of its own chips, suggesting a transition away from traditional supplier Intel.
The initial batch of custom chips won't be on the same level as the Intel ones used in high-end Apple computers, so they're likely to debut in a new type of laptop, the report noted. These processors could have eight high-performance cores and at least four energy-efficient cores, respectively codenamed Firestorm and Icestorm.
Just another brick in the wall[ed garden]?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday April 24 2020, @04:49PM (3 children)
Is there some fundamental reason that the ARM architecture cannot be fabricated with faster switches, higher voltages, generate more heat, have more parallelism, or certainly more cores per chip, have higher memory bandwidth, etc?
I hear about ARM designs in powerful servers.
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(Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Friday April 24 2020, @07:16PM (2 children)
Yes, it is. A fundamental reason. On ARM, no AMD HyperTransport, namely its superset Infinity Fabric architecture. A true breakthrough, a new techlevel. This one cannot be imitated correctly even by Intel with all their money pile, not mentioning poor ARM.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday April 24 2020, @07:51PM
That is interesting information about AMD. Thank you.
So what about comparing ARM / RISC-V with Intel. What would prevent building high performance, power hungry, room heating processors?
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday April 24 2020, @09:36PM
A high-speed interconnect doesn't cure everything, it will be imitated, and Apple is not replacing AMD CPUs, they are replacing Intel CPUs. Apple also has a much bigger money pile than ARM (SoftBank).
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