[Swordmaker]

Keep in mind, this is merely a rumor at this point based on anonymous sources. Apple itself has made no announcement about this and will not until the start of the on-line WWDC in the third week in June.

[Swordmaker]

This is, at this point, merely an unsubstantiated rumor. Apple has not made any announcement stating this. It’s based on anonymous sources. If true, it’s not going to likely happen with models before 2022, and then starting with the lower end MacBooks and iMacs. —PING!

Apple Macs with A Series Processors? Maybe.
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[Zathras]

I DO know Apple has had a big design team on 7nm working on something for years and I don’t think its a chipset or a phone.

[Swordmaker]

Thanks to Freeper Battman for the heads up to look for this.

[jimtorr]

Did Apple use ARM chips before they moved to Intel?

[Rurudyne]

The ARM ... inspired when Acorn saw that William Mensch and his sister Katherine could create the 65816 with out a big investment.

In a way, Apple may be coming full circle.

[PIF]

AAPL up 10 on rumor

[amigatec]

The Commodore 64 used the 6510 CPU with a speed of 1 Mhz, the IBM PC used the 8088 CPU with a speed of 4.77 Mhz.

If I remember correctly, In side by side tests the Commodore was only about half as slow as the IBM, because it had better through put.

[Sir_Ed]

I wonder if Parallels will still work with it?

I gotta have Win7 and Win10.

Thanks, Sword,

Ed

[goldstategop]

The Maci is dead. The iPad is its successor.

[zeugma]

Interesting Sword. We’ll probably know for sure shortly.

Ya know, I used to have a couple of posters of CPUs. It looked like an otherworldly city. Did a search for some good sized graphics of that on the web a few months ago, and didn’t really find as much as I’d expected.

[dayglored]

Hi Swordmaker.

An awful lot of people (myself included on four different Macs) use VMware fusion to run Win10 or Linux in a VM on the Mac.

Is Apple going to claim that their ARM-based machines are so blindingly fast and perfectly accurate that they can emulate an Intel CPU and run Windows or Linux at the same speed (or better) than the Intel Macs.

Color me skeptical, but we won't know until we get there.

Granted, Linux can be compiled for ARM. And Microsoft is going to release an ARM Win10, no word on application compatibility of course. But a lot of people have existing VMs that they've configured and used and installed applications on, and we don't want to have to rebuild them.

It would be extremely disappointing if the ARM machines don't support existing Intel VMs.

Any thoughts, opinions, speculations?

[usconservative]

Keep in mind, this is merely a rumor at this point based on anonymous sources. Apple itself has made no announcement about this and will not until the start of the on-line WWDC in the third week in June.

I could be wrong however I'd swear I've read in the last few years that Apple was making their own processor (again) and was moving away from Intel.

None of this is a surprise, is it?

[PreciousLiberty]

One thing that’s not widely known is that NeXT (developer of Nextstep, the predecessor of macOS) supported multiple CPU architectures via “fat binaries”, essentially bundling machine code for all supported processors into a single file.

All the Apple development tools can easily support this, and since Apple has experience switching architectures already (PowerPC -> Intel) I’m pretty sure they’ll wait until all is in place before releasing hardware.

Expect for this to initially be the lower end systems (Macbook, Macbook Air, Mac Mini) and then it will “filter up” as Apple develops more powerful chips with more cores.

Google has developed ARM chips that compete very favorably with Intel Xeon on the high end, so it’s very possible that someday even the Mac Pro will go ARM.

Interesting times, I never thought I’d see Apple migrate away from Intel, but Intel has been having a real tough time the last few years.