Kuo: Apple might release two ARM-based MacBooks this year

[Rayneofpayne]

You are speaking of ARM as if it was a fixed design. It is not. Apple ARM implementation is different from other’s.
You can’t know yet how scalable it is (the only indications we have are the tablet X models, somewhat bigger than smartphone counterpart, and it worked well).

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Because it is something called a standard. While ARM is a modular design you can only do so much, like Tegra from NVidia swapping out Mali GPU structure for CUDA cores.
We know how scalable it is, we have seen others try, that is the point and they are dedicated chip manufacturers with specialized engineers, Apple is not on that level, otherwise they wouldnt bother using ARM in the first place.
Also don't compare with synthetic benchmarks, Real world performance as Apple devices have proven the data is skewed due to optimizations for specific programs, there were scandals.

 

[MaxSmarties]

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Because it is something called a standard. While ARM is a modular design you can only do so much, like Tegra from NVidia swapping out Mali GPU structure for CUDA cores.
We know how scalable it is, we have seen others try, that is the point and they are dedicated chip manufacturers with specialized engineers, Apple is not on that level, otherwise they wouldnt bother using ARM in the first place.
Also don't compare with synthetic benchmarks, Real world performance as Apple devices have proven the data is skewed due to optimizations for specific programs, there were scandals.

you should learn more about ARM.
And stop reading websites like Wired, and start reading Anandtech or actual technical websites.
ARM licensing is not a “standard “ architecture. Not at all. There are basically two type of license (well actually is more complex than this) and Apple isn’t using the ARM architecture, but just the ARM IP (and instruction set ARMv8). There are no Cortex cores inside Apple A chips. Not at all. They are much wider.
Apple already proved a good level of scalability on their tablet SoC (like A12X).
In making the shift for the entire Mac lineup they surely already know they can do the same to an higher level.

 

[Rayneofpayne]

you should learn more about ARM.
And stop reading websites like Wired, and start reading Anandtech or actual technical websites.
ARM licensing is not a “standard “ architecture. Not at all. There are basically two type of license (well actually is more complex than this) and Apple isn’t using the ARM architecture, but just the ARM IP (and instruction set ARMv8). There are no Cortex cores inside Apple A chips. Not at all. They are much wider.
Apple already proved a good level of scalability on their tablet SoC (like A12X).
In making the shift for the entire Mac lineup they surely already know they can do the same to an higher level.

I never said they use cortex cores, I think you are giving Apple too much credit here and drinking the Apple aid a bit too much, it's an ARM chip on an ARM standard Apple had prototype units in the Apple 2 they are familiar with it. Yes I already read Ian's analysis of it and you are overstating a great deal.

 

[MaxSmarties]

I never said they use cortex cores, I think you are giving Apple too much credit here and drinking the Apple aid a bit too much, it's an ARM chip on an ARM standard Apple had prototype units in the Apple 2 they are familiar with it. Yes I already read Ian's analysis of it and you are overstating a great deal.

You clearly don’t know what you are speaking about... an “ARM chip on an ARM standard” is something that doesn’t exist.

 

[Rayneofpayne]

You clearly don’t know what you are speaking about... an “ARM chip on an ARM standard” is something that doesn’t exist.

Apparently you don't understand ARM, and how licensing and design works, you seriously need to go do some reading and compare the chips on a side by side Lithography basis instead of shouting nonsense.

 

[MaxSmarties]

Apparently you don't understand ARM, and how licensing and design works, you seriously need to go do some reading and compare the chips on a side by side Lithography basis instead of shouting nonsense.

You clearly don’t know anything about architecture... if you compare an A13 to a Snapdragon 855 you would see a completely different CPU.
You should study a little bit more before posting.