Monday, October 12th 2020
Apple Preparing to Launch First ARM-Powered MacBook Next Month
Apple announced plans to transition their Mac lineup to in-house ARM-based processors earlier this year. This decision came as a result of Apple's dependence on Intel for new processors each year and their recent underwhelming improvements. The upcoming 12 core chip is expected to be manufactured on TSMC's 5 nm node which should deliver significant power savings and performance. Apple has been working to optimize macOS and first party applications for the new processors along with sending out developer transition kits to hopefully ensure major software is supported at launch. The processor is rumored to debut in an upcoming 13-inch MacBook Pro or a new MacBook Air and should launch at a dedicated event in November according to a recent report by Bloomberg.
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25 Comments on Apple Preparing to Launch First ARM-Powered MacBook Next Month
1. Temp.
2. CPU power.
Waiting for reviews. But I don't see how arm will take place in casual pc eco system.
Apple + Nvidia = a match made in
hellheaven :pimp:BTT:
Love to see Apple is making their own CPU's. It is fairly save to say Apple wouldn't switch to their own ARM design, if there wouldn't be parity or near parity between x86 and the custom ARM design.
Global Warming is a FACT? What does that mean? Temperatures have risen. Data fact. Temperatures are expected to rise. Modelling result with some uncertainty. But the concept Global Warming? Do you mean the Earth as we know it will always get hotter and hotter never stopping? Until the water boils? In fact, Global Warming is SO DISPUTED that we now call it CLIMATE CHANGE, because we are seeing significant and disruptive changes in weather patterns that are affecting our human lives. But not necessarily WARMING EVERYWHERE. And does warming actually harm the World or just us? (From a long term systemic standpoint).
Yes, temperatures have risen. And our human presence has accelerated it. But can we actually stop it? Perhaps we can't. Maybe it is increasing asymptotically toward some threshold number, at which point, it will turn and decrease. (This has happened many times over the millennia, before our interference). So our recent human behaviour of trashing the environment is speeding us along this curve which means we will get to the cooling point faster. Or we try to slow down global warming and it just means more years of misery before we get to that same turning point.
I leave you with a thought question: Who and what do we save by the measures you want to implement? And who benefits? Because it is nothing more than REDISTRIBUTION ECONOMICS. Not necessarily wrong. But be honest about the motive forces and the end result.
We shall see cpu comparison next month when they gonna release first macii kappi appli device with arm. Personaly I don't believe that arm will be at the same level amd or intel.
Below is the A14 (2 big, 4 little core) vs the Ryzen 3300X 4C/8T desktop chip - the A14 is 24% faster than the 3300X in single threaded operations. This is despite having a much lower thermal limit being in a phone/tablet, and restricted with slower LPDDAR4 RAM. For that matter, the A14 has ZERO L3 cache, to the 3300X 16MB L3 cache.
The laptop A14 will purportedly have 12 cores, which probably means 4 big and 6 little, and I bet it doesn't have those constraints.
This is compared to a 4700U - a fairer comparison, but still a lot of factors favoring the 4700U. The A14 is 41% faster in single thread here. That's an absolute slaughter. This could wind up being a far reaching game changer.