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

[Kagamin]

On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 21:24:04 UTC, kinke wrote:
> 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/

Last I checked windows on arm was completely locked down like 
ios. Microsoft like Apple wants to be alone in its ecosystem.

> 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.

The reviewer conveniently forgot to add that only Celeron can 
realistically fit in a notebook, anything more powerful will 
simply melt under your fingers, because Intel games TDP numbers 
to death for the sake of competition.