Apple Finally Buying AMD CPUs?

[Gigamaxx]

Apple can enable or disable it as we’ve seen them do in the past with the RX5xx series, symbios and or software editions.

 

[bombardier10]

Eight core AMD CPU is powerfull like four core Intel CPU )

 

[pastrychef]

Eight core AMD CPU is powerfull like four core Intel CPU )

Here's AMD 8 core vs Intel 8 core:

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[techana]

In mid-2000s when Apple switched to x86 arch, I heard that they considered AMD but were in doubt about AMD' ability to meet demand and supply the required qtys in a timely manner. At that time, AMD had plans to be a fabless company and this rose the doubt with Apple.

 

[tabarus]

Here's AMD 8 core vs Intel 8 core

Ok so nothing for DAW use since in that field Single core Performance is still very important.

 

[accelito]

Intel is losing the battle(price-performance) and not by close margin, and for sure apple have the data to prove it.
I think next generation of macbook pro will be AMD, especially because that is the Apple's workhorse.

 

[stator]

This is interesting as trying to predict Apple's intentions on AMD vs Intel has another complexity which is their own ARM chip. A chip that is gaining in performance and is also very good at power management.

 

[UtterDisbelief]

The trouble with ARM is a whole industry of software houses will have to rebuild and recompile their apps. Not trivial when you look at the big outfits.

True, Apple may provide a new Rosetta to handle the changeover, but that in itself would be a huge undertaking. Nothing like as easy as back in 2005/6 when the number of big apps was a lot less.

Why give yourself the headache?

 

[Gigamaxx]

The trouble with ARM is a whole industry of software houses will have to rebuild and recompile their apps. Not trivial when you look at the big outfits.

True, Apple may provide a new Rosetta to handle the changeover, but that in itself would be a huge undertaking. Nothing like as easy as back in 2005/6 when the number of big apps was a lot less.

Why give yourself the headache?

True and ARMs still can’t really run Windows10 yet so there is still a lot to be done.

 

[UtterDisbelief]

True and ARMs still can’t really run Windows10 yet so there is still a lot to be done.

Good point. My kid's school here had a whole IT suite of iMacs, but had so many problems (not sure what) they BootCamped the lot and ran them as Windows machines ... It was a bit surreal walking in and seeing all these Macs, thinking to myself "Wow, impressive!" and then realising they were all running Windows.