Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Replacing Intel
This is such an obvious move, that I predicted it 2 years ago:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@Jernfrost&#x2F;in-3-years-apple-will-switch-from-intel-to-arm-a6816058a1b2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@Jernfrost&#x2F;in-3-years-apple-will-switch-f...</a><p>My prediction in 2016, was that Apple would switch to ARM based laptops in 2019, so it looks like I am off by just 1 year.<p>A quick summary of my argument back then was that ARM was getting fast ENOUGH, but are considerably cheaper. Standardizing on one CPU architecture for all their products makes sense. In addition it allows them to differentiate themselves from competitors.<p>The only choice I am still uncertain about is the Mac Pro lineup. Since performance will matter a lot more in this segment it is harder to see a transition away from intel. A possible solution would be for apple to go massively parallel and simply use a lot of ARM CPU cores. Sure single thread performance wont be able to compete with intel but they might not need to.<p>A lot of the stuff you need a Mac Pro for like compiling large programs fast, video processing etc is likely very paralelizable.