There are three competitors in this future - Nvidia with ARM, AMD with x86 and ARM, and Apple with M/ARM. How is it fanboyism to want to see Intel go away? Companies like that one are the absolute worst thing that ever happened to this industry and you're actually proving it in this example...
It's not Macs or M1 that will lead to the end of Intel's marketshare - but M1 is what is driving AMD to an M1 competitor...and behind the scenes, Nvidia is brewing an entire line of ARM competitors to Intel on every front.
Also, with this pandemic never ending, every man needs chips. Daily.
This happens across the entire industry, not just at Apple. And it's been happening at Apple since the 90's...so how exactly has it paralleled a decline in quality NOW?
Why? It was a machine for pros, making money with their computer. If they were really pros, then their machines will have gotten them 3 good years, and when the time comes for an upgrade, it'll presumably be a nice bump. If their work shows a benefit in moving to one of the M1 Max or Pro chips now, then they'll still have gotten 2 good years of revenue from their machines. Now if you're talking about a hobbyist who really wasn't the market for the Mac Pro but they plunked down the money anyway... once again, it's not like the ARM Mac Pros came out right after they made their purchase. In fact, they're still a year away. So your comparison is silly. Future chips rule. But current chips is how a pro actually earns his or her living. It's not about fanboyism. It's about doing your job right now with the tools available.
Imagine Chomrebooks with MacBook Air level performance. ARM-based servers that can do more than low-end virtual web hosting. Integrated graphics that nearly always outperform dedicated video cards. Intel’s problems won’t be losing some specific fringe markets. It will be competitors burning holes through it on many fronts like swiss cheese. Apple put a “phone chip” in computers that previously had top-of-the-line Intel processors and they got better in every measurable way. That did not go unnoticed in any corner of the industry.
That's the first time I've been called an Apple fanboy. If you check my post history you'll see I'm often very critical of the company when the situation warrants, which recently has been quite often.
Ok. I didn't mention any of those things, you did. I'm citing Apple's published information.
Well this is untrue. Apple's current diversity program only started a few years ago. This is what I'm referring to.
That's not always the case. I can certainly imagine a research group buying a computer with a certain amount of RAM, where the next year their research takes them a new direction where more RAM is needed. That happened to me when I was a grad student. Fortunately, at the time, the RAM in my PowerMac G5 was upgradeable.
Honestly I don't think it's been this good since the early G4 days, and even then Apple didn't have their own chip architecture. Good times to be a Mac and Apple user!
Since when does Nvidia make CPUs? If you got rid of Intel you'd only have ONE company making x86 processors for Windows, Linux etc.
They were doing it anyway. As were others. It merely got this industry-wide label because the practice had become topical a few years ago.
Yesterday’s chip sales don’t pay tomorrow‘s bills. To see which way the winds blow we will need to watch Microsoft. If MS still values the WIntel market alliance and is ok with being a relative performance laggard for a few years then Intel will have breathing room to retool and get back in the game. But if Microsft starts embracing ARM, even casually at first, it will be catastrophic for Intel. When Dell ships their first ARM based laptop with an NVidia CPU with NVidia GPU cores in an SOC running Windows, I wouldn’t want to be holding any Intel stock in my portfolio.
It's so true. Just when we have enough power for 4K workflows, bam, 8K enters the scene (4x the data as 4K, 16x HD). And on and on it goes...
