PC Manufacturers forced to move to ARM based architecture? Do those of you who know chip tech better than I do...

Jul 13, 2020
9:32:59am

Tokolosh All-American

agree with this opinion? Obviously from someone biased toward Apple products.

Switch to ARM won't just be Macs, but better Windows PCs too- 9to5Mac

Apple's former head of Mac development, Jean-Louis Gassée, has said that Apple's decision to switch to ARM processors for Macs will make it inevitable ...

https://9to5mac.com/2020/07/13/switch-to-arm/

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PC Manufacturers forced to move to ARM based architecture? Do those of you who know chip tech better than I do...

Tokolosh All-American

7/13/20 9:32am

I'd be incredibly surprised if this is how it plays out.

supertux

7/13/20 9:36am

There will always be a place for x86/x64 for big computations. Gaming will be

snowbird

7/13/20 9:43am

All that said, Apple has a hill to climb with GPU compatibility and their claims

snowbird

7/13/20 9:44am

I guess the good news is they control the hardware so they don't need to worry about wide GPU compatibility

supertux

7/13/20 9:50am

Apples 'ARM Developer Hardware' is nothing but an iPad Pro with more ram...

TheLost

7/13/20 11:43am

Remember, Apple's big differentiator used to be different CPUs than the x86s

Switch to ARM won't just be Macs, but better Windows PCs too- 9to5Mac

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