Intel To Stop Making Chips???

[Randy B. Singer]

This was unexpected….

Intel Plunges as It Weighs Exit From Manufacturing Chips

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/intel-considers-once-heresy-not-013625863.html

Apparently Apple had a really good reason to decide that now is the time to transition to it's own chips.

 

[RavingMac]

Wow!

 

[chscag]

I read that article elsewhere that Randy posted and yes, it's a real shock to learn just how bad Intel has been sliding. Even AMD is ahead of Intel with producing a 7 nm chip. The real shock is that Intel will now outsource chip production to Taiwan. You can bet with all the $$ that Intel has, they will try to squeeze out AMD just as they have been for the past 30 years.

 

[pm-r]

WOW...!!! That's quite some new and shocking news.

I guess that could be the end of an era:





- Patrick
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[chscag]

Hey Patrick:

From now on you can say: "ARM Inside"!

 

[pm-r]

From now on you can say: "ARM Inside"!

And maybe it might even say, Made in the US of A.

But I probably won't live long enough to ever own an ARM Desktop Mac.



- Patrick
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[Slydude]

I wasn't expecting this but in hindsight, I think this has been coming for a while now.

Intel has not seen the kinds of performance gains that Apple and others would like. O don't follow this side of the industry consistently but I have noticed that more and more vendors seem to be bragging that their systems are based on AMD's Ryzen series.

 

[Randy B. Singer]

Some interesting stuff:

Apple will reportedly use 12-core 5nm ARM processor in a 2021 Mac
https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/23/21232441/apple-arm-mac-2020-5nm-processor-12-cores

I just read that over 90% of processors in the world are ARM processors!

 

[pm-r]

I just read that over 90% of processors in the world are ARM processors!

And I guess that almost 100% are still ARM 32-bit RISC processors.

What is Apple going to do about that little detail I wonder...???




- Patrick
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[MacInWin]

Patrick, why should Apple care about those other processors? Apple will build a 64-bit Apple Silicon, put it in all Apple devices over time and that's that.

 

[Raz0rEdge]

And I guess that almost 100% are still ARM 32-bit RISC processors.

What is Apple going to do about that little detail I wonder...???
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What does any of this have to do with Apple? The percentage that Randy quoted includes all other devices like smartphones made by a LOT of other companies than Apple.

 

[pm-r]

Patrick, why should Apple care about those other processors? Apple will build a 64-bit Apple Silicon, put it in all Apple devices over time and that's that.

I'm sure Apple doesn't care, but it just seems a bit odd to me that their latest current Mac OS has just killed off all 32-bit stuff, and then they have to turn around and have to create and develop a brand-new 64-bit ARM Processor chip that barely exists to run their OS and software.




- Patrick
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[Slydude]

I'm sure Apple doesn't care, but it just seems a bit odd to me that their latest current Mac OS has just killed off all 32-bit stuff, and then they have to turn around and have to create and develop a brand-new 64-bit ARM Processor chip that barely exists to run their OS and software.

- Patrick
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Maybe one of my hats is on too tight Patrick but this makes sense to me. if you're going to start making this transition why not skip 32-bit now if you can? Make one transition instead of two. Aren't the chips in IOS devices already 64-bit.

 

[pm-r]

Maybe one of my hats is on too tight Patrick but this makes sense to me.

Sorry Sly, just don't let any of your hats give you a headache over my comments, too tight or not.

I was just babbling on... And I'm sure Apple will get everything all sorted out and working properly...



- Patrick
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[Randy B. Singer]

Apple Silicon vs Intel

The pros and cons of Apple's decision to make its own processors. Here's how Apple Silicon will compare to Intel.

https://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/mac/apple-silicon-vs-intel-3793039/