Apple is officially moving away from Intel to a custom Arm chip

[Paulo Pinto]

On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 21:24:04 UTC, kinke wrote:
> On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 11:21:51 UTC, aberba wrote:
>> Note there's similar move by Microsoft to get their system to
>> work on Arm chips.
>
> Windows ARM laptops have been around for some time, with such 
> enormous success that many people haven't even heard or already 
> forgotten about it. E.g., 
> https://www.techspot.com/review/1599-windows-on-arm-performance/.
>
> Providing (software) x86 emulation (32-bit only IIRC) on an 
> already slow CPU wasn't a great idea. Apple will probably just 
> hope/try to enforce that the publishers port and recompile all 
> their packages (incl. any x86-specific optimizations), so that 
> the code is at least native.
>
> They'll probably have to put a lot of work into single-thread 
> performance though if they want to seriously compete with x86 
> in the laptop/desktop segment and according TDP budget + use 
> cases. I'm pretty sure a high number of relatively slow cores 
> won't cut it against the likes of Zen 2 and its successors.

Yet, this came out just yesterday,

"Announcing OpenJDK for Windows 10 on ARM"

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/announcing-openjdk-windows-arm/

When companies have deep pockets, things eventually happen as 
long as there is internal political support to keep going at it.