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

[Yatheendra]

On Wednesday, 1 July 2020 at 13:39:57 UTC, Yatheendra wrote:
> Hardware: if IO speeds matter, ASUS has Tinkerboards with 
> dual-channel RAM - I think those are rare in ARM land.
>
> Form factor: realizing the market for SBC's, there are amd64 
> SBC's now like the lattepanda (soldered RAM, like most SBC's).
>
> dmd: does its backend play a big role in compilation speed? 
> Would maintaining a fork of a backend from somewhere else 
> (SBCL?) provide wider platform support without harming dmd 
> performance? RISC-V is behind ARM on the horizon.
>
> ARM may be urgent, if say, the Pinebook, takes off among 
> developers.

Also, if developing for the host processor on FPGA's could be of 
enough interest, most FPGA's only have ARM (or Synopsys ARC, or 
MIPS) host processors - even the Intel-owned Altera FPGA's, I 
guess.