What are the advantages to: Apple's move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC

[tuqqer]

Does anyone have a good list of the upsides of Apple moving to its own chips in the near future? I know there will be temporary hassle/conversion of apps, etc. But what are the main positives that we'll experience?

I'm guessing less heat and faster speeds, but that's pure lay person guessing.

[RAMd®d]

Maybe no longer depending on Intel for the latest and greatest chipset?

[freeradical]

Greater vertical integration

[N-OS X-tasy!]

- Better performance
- Longer battery life
- Lower cost

https://9to5mac.com/2020/06/09/apple-arm...arts-wwdc/

The big question I have is how successful Apple will be in convincing its developers to migrate to the new chip architecture. In the short term, Apple will obviously need to provide a Rosetta-like solution that will enable 680x0 code to run on the ARM architecture. In the long term.... how much interest will there be among developers to learn to support yet ANOTHER Apple architecture?

Convincing them to migrate away from the Motorola G-chip to the Intel architecture was probably very easy, as developers could easily leverage existing code bases already developed for the PC platform. Convincing them to migrate AWAY from that platform may prove to be very challenging for Apple.

[mattkime]

I'm curious how speed would compare mid to high end.

[Ombligo]

N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
- Better performance
- Longer battery life
- Lower cost

Don't forget Bigger Profit

[anonymouse1]

More efficiency
More ability to custom-design chips
Better integrated graphics
Bit code at chip levels is the same across all of Apple's lines

[Sarcany]

Vertical integration. They control the whole supply-chain from beginning to end, dictating spec and price and ship-dates.

For the first product -- most likely a typically slow and near-useless MacBook -- there may be some battery-life advantage.

As it scales up to compete head-on with Intel-based Macs, heat and power-consumption will go up accordingly. There's not likely to be any advantage at all for the mid-to-high range consumer or pro.

Since it's a new architecture, you're going to lose a lot of your apps and for those pro-apps that migrate, you're likely to be out of pocket for new versions.

[p8712]

680x0 code to run on the ARM architecture

Say what now?

[mattkime]

p8712 wrote:

680x0 code to run on the ARM architecture

Say what now?

THIS IS HOW RUMORS GET STARTED