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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]?
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Saturday April 25 2020, @05:24PM
I totally understand what you say, but it is irrelevant. That only applies to NEW software.
And new also means newly compiled old software -- which the end user will have to re-purchase in many cases. Do you really think Adobe is not going to charge you again for an ARM compiled photoshop?
IMO vast amounts of legacy Windows software have x86 dependencies that don't make it trivial to port to ARM or other architectures.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.