Apple Threatened to Abandon Intel Chips over Power Consumption

[bwillwall]

Did you check the date of this thread before posting?

ARM in its current state is not the future - it's not a general purpose CPU.

Yes I did know it was a very old thread. I was just so shocked somebody would say that when ARM is advancing so quickly and is so clearly the most efficient answer to processing we have yet.

 

[Wicked1]

This just shows you what lazy sloths the Win PCs makers are. It takes tiny Apple (on market share basis) to force Intel to make more efficient chips. The Win fans can hate on Apple all day, but the fact remains, but-for Apple going Intel, PC hardware would be as horrible now as they was ten years ago.

Didn't Apple hire some Chip exect a few months ago, it would seem to me that if they can make a chip on their own, it would make more sense then using Intel as we already know some of the unltrabooks are trying to get more power efficient and I am not sure either Intel or AMD are up to the task.

It will be an interesting thing to watch over the next 1-3 years

 

[SlCKB0Y]

Yes I did know it was a very old thread. I was just so shocked somebody would say that when ARM is advancing so quickly and is so clearly the most efficient answer to processing we have yet.

It is very efficient, but the problem is that it is very specialised. It does not even come close to having the cores, speed of cores, raw power, caches, bus support, CPU features or extensions required to be a general-purpose CPU and no one knows if it can be adapted and scaled to support all this whilst at the same retaining its relative advantage in power efficiency.

Besides all that, this thread was pre-Haswell and we now have Macbook Airs with all-day battery life.