Friday, March 27th 2020
Apple ARM Based MacBooks and iMacs to come in 2021
Apple has been working on replacing Intel CPUs in its lineup of products for a while now, and the first batch of products to feature the new Arm-based CPUs should be coming soon. Having a completely custom CPU inside it's MacBook or an iMac device will allow Apple to overtake control of the performance and security of those devices, just like they did with their iPhone models. Apple has proved that its custom-built CPUs based on Arm Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) can be very powerful and match Intel's best offerings, all while being much more efficient with a TDP of only a few Watts.
According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple has started an "aggressive processor replacement strategy", which should give some results by the end of 2020, around Q4, or the beginning of 2021 when the first quarter arrives. According to Kuo, the approach of doing in-house design will result in not only tighter control of the system, but rather a financial benefit, as the custom processor will be 40% to 60% cheaper compared to current Intel CPU prices.
Source:
AppleInsider
According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple has started an "aggressive processor replacement strategy", which should give some results by the end of 2020, around Q4, or the beginning of 2021 when the first quarter arrives. According to Kuo, the approach of doing in-house design will result in not only tighter control of the system, but rather a financial benefit, as the custom processor will be 40% to 60% cheaper compared to current Intel CPU prices.
98 Comments on Apple ARM Based MacBooks and iMacs to come in 2021
Perspective blown out of ass actually.
It's running at 3 GHz, it's the first generation, clients already express interest and the software ecosystem is ready. Windows is ready. Linux is ready. Server software is ready.
As for PC, it's a declining market and PC gaming is a niche. They can move to consoles, while everything else from netbooks, to notebooks for light use and others become ARM-only.
Mission failed.
NVIDIA ports Crysis and Doom for Android on the $199 Shield set-top box
www.phonearena.com/news/NVIDIA-ports-Crysis-and-Doom-for-Android-on-the-199-Shield-set-top-box_id66805
Your ARM big overtaking plan seems to disregard all the people who aren't just doing ligth work. Pc's with arm already exist but aren't convincing performance wise, or even battery life wise. The surface pro X is a fail since it doesn't beat the pro 7 on battery life, while being restricted on app compatibility. And devs are not going to code for ARM, if peoples aren't buying those machines...so yhea I'm super doubtfull about it at the moment. Seems great on paper, but the real world results aren't there yet.
You would have to show me the numbers that told you that pc gaming is a niche compared to console, when the numbers that I've found says that it's still a proftable market :
Apple just released a MacBook Air refresh, based on the design from 2018 + new keyboard. The previous redesign was in 2010. That's a life-cycle of 8 years.
MB Pro redesigns: 2012, 2016, 2019. 3-4 years for their most popular computer.
Mac Pro just saw it's first redesign since 2012...
They just released the new iPad Pro -- an Arm based tablet with keyboard and trackpad support.
There's no way they're going to trash the MBP, MP, and Air for ARM. A new product line to replace the MB and act as an AIO upgrade for the iPad Pro? Sure.
Ditching x86 entirely two years after a bunch of content creators just spend $6k+ on a new Mac Pro? Not a chance.
(Imagine the likes of Pixar holding onto MacOS while everyone else moved to Windows after the trashcan and Final Cut fiascos, their sigh of relief when the new Pro came out, only to find that their product is legacy three years after purchase. Imagine the developers of video editing software... Seriously lol stuff here).
Also, devs already code for Android and Apple Store and all the apps are there - Office, internet, games, videos, anything you want.
You can do with your smartphone 2 to 3 days normal load, and this with its very small battery capacity.
Show me a x86 notebook that can last 2 days on a battery? That's 48 hours!
That is from 2015, the port never existed, it was pulled down from the advertisements the day Shield TV came out. Likely the demos were completely made up and not running on an actual Tegra X1. I remember watching an interview with someone who worked on it (I think or something like that) and the guy didn't even know under what API this was working.
So, no, Crysis doesn't run on ARM. And they only needed 25% more cores for a "4% faster". :roll:
And that is according to whoever wrote the article, whatever that's worth.
Crysis is irrelevant in 2020. No one cares about Crysis these days.
Who brought this argument for the sake of trolling?!
So, what exactly do you want to prove by Crysis doesn't run?!
Crysis doesn't, but million other games do!
Plenty care and can still play it, might be getting a redux Even.
They Can change chips but consumer's can change brand loyalty, see which gives.
That's why you see all the time the meme "RIP Intel".
Even your average 500$ laptop with integrated graphics can run Crysis. It'd look like garbage but it would run quite well. What exactly did you wanted to prove when you posted that article ? theoneandonlymrk said your phone can't run Crysis and he was right. Which are no where as demanding. Be real, even the Nintendo Switch which is a dedicated console can barely run games of that scale with abhorrent frame rates and visuals.
It's all a conspiracy from Intel and AMD to make us believe we need their many more watts CPUs and GPUs if we want to run Crysis.
Light users won't really care, but the people mixing apps like photoshop, after effect with c4d, maya, 3dsmax, are not going to make a switch until everything is smooth...wich is going to take a while seeing how qualcomm focus isn't on high performance yet.
And again you talk about phones lasting 2 days when comparing them to x86 notebook when the arm notebook that are currently on the market can't last 2 days, and do barely better than their current x86 counterpart.
I get that arm got a few advantages that looks neat. But the picture that I see so far show me a futur where Arm and x86-64 are going to co-exist. The former on notebooks for light task, the latter on computers that will be used for heavy work/gaming.
I'm a multimedia infographist, and so far qualcomm hasn't teased anything that could replace my current workstation, and a fair amount of the apps that I'm using haven't talked about an arm version, and don't currently have an android/ios equivalent. You can't say that a new product will kill an older product if he can't fully replace it without hidering a userbase that still matter even if they are not the majority.
I can put together something showing crysis working on a abacus then not release , would that make it real.