Apple’s First ARM-based Mac Will Feature 12-Core Processor, Release in 2021

[nicksoph]

I predict a very small white box with rounded corners and a single female USB C connector, and a white USB C Cable. All in a white cardboard box. And apples, I can see apples.

Arm super computer story - https://www.riken.jp/en/news_pubs/news/2020/20200623_1/

 

[MacManiac]

That's just a rumor, or a bs prediction, it can hardly be considered news.

And 12 core sounds kind of little, seeing as an iPad Pro has 8 cores.

 

[trs96]

Arm super computer story

That is actually a RISC-V computer, the company ARM holdings inc. has nothing to do with it. Fujitsu doesn't pay Arm a nickel in licensing fees to be able to build their Super Computer.

Google RISC-V and learn some more. It's quite interesting what they're doing.

Good place to start is with the Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V
There are also some good Youtube videos on the topic.

 

[nicksoph]

? - The supercomputer Fugaku, which is being developed jointly by RIKEN and Fujitsu Limited based on Arm®

" Powering Fugaku are a staggering 152,064 of Fujitsu's 48-core A64FX SoCs (System-on-Chip), which tally up to a total of 7.3-million CPU cores. The chips run at 2.0 GHz with a boost to 2.2 GHz, and carry 32 GB of HBM2 memory each.

Not sure how much of ARM designs are included in the supercomputer but the underlying CPU chip design is originally from ARM. Whats interesting here is, are RISC chips powerful enough to meet the needs of Apple users, and this super computer being number one (by a large margin) in several super computer type tests, is not a definitive reply but may be indicative of something significant.

When the first of Apple's new PC's comes out we'll see how well it works but I suspect that for the majority of apple users, they won't notice anything except longer battery life on their laptops and small (smaller than NUC's) desktop machines which they can carry with them.


and this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Computers is interesting too -
" Apple and Acorn began to collaborate on developing the ARM, and it was decided that this would be best achieved by a separate company.[55] The bulk of the Advanced Research and Development section of Acorn that had developed the ARM CPU formed the basis of ARM Ltd. when that company was spun off in November 1990. Acorn Group and Apple Computer Inc each had a 43% shareholding in ARM (in 1996),[56] while VLSI was an investor and first ARM licensee.[57]

and if anybody has a spare $1.2 billion, some free time and fancies a supercomputertosh. Heres the spec...