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TDNC Podcast #91 - Is Apple Dumping Intel? (Patreon)

Published:
2018-04-10 00:49:42
Imported:
2024-01

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Rumors have been swirling about Apple switching its Mac lineup from Intel CPUs to ones of its own design, based on the ARM architecture. But a recent report suggests there might be truth to the rumors -- so what effect on Apple, and the computer industry as a whole, would there be?

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Music by Lakey Inspired (http://www.soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired).
Intro music by BoxCat Games (http://www.box-cat.com).

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Anonymous

What are the odds of Apple buying out AMD, and monopolizing the Zen series CPU's? Also, couldn't Apple just partner with AMD and create their custom CPU's? Several people have gotten Zen CPU's to run Hackintosh, and they perform much better than intel series in terms of performance to power ratio, and require very few kernel mods. The performance to power ratio is basically what Apple has been striving for.

thisdoesnotcompute
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As I understand it, the magic behind the Zen architecture isn't really in the CPU cores themselves, but rather how AMD was able to scale its interconnects to cram a bunch of cores into a single socket. x86 -- whether from Intel or AMD -- still continues to slow in its pace of increasing instructions per clock. Apple has always wanted long-term solutions, not short-term stopgaps. If Apple were to make a move regarding AMD, I'd think it would be to acquire its graphics division (which Apple seems to rely on these days, having not used Nvidia GPUs in years).

Anonymous

There are a lot of tech professionals who rely on virtualization tools like VirtualBox to do their jobs and also prefer to work on Macs. Of course there are always things that can emulate other architectures like QEMU, but I doubt those will be as performant as proper virtualization.