A potential positive for Intel now that Apple will no longer use their processors?

[willfr]

Intel must design their chips to work on Windows, Mac and Linux. That's quite a lot of significantly different operating systems and surely can be a bit limiting and compromising. Once Intel no longer has to consider macOS in their designs, will there be some small improvements and 'wins' for Intels chips?

 

[whm1974]

The ability to run other OSes besides Windows is a great selling point of the x86 PC platform. And besides the vast of majority of support comes form the OS vendors anyway.

 

[bbhaag]

When did Apple dump Intel? I know that has been the rumor for years but did it finally happen?

 

[whm1974]

When did Apple dump Intel? I know that has been the rumor for years but did it finally happen?

Until we actually see a Mac with an ARM CPU instead of Intel the answer is of course, no they didn't.

 

[paperfist]

When did Apple dump Intel? I know that has been the rumor for years but did it finally happen?

https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/bloomberg-apple-starting-process-to-dump-intel-in-macs.2542295/

 

[sandorski]

That's a stretch. Losing Apple won't kill them, but I'm sure they'd rather have them.

 

[bbhaag]

https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/bloomberg-apple-starting-process-to-dump-intel-in-macs.2542295/

Oh I see. This is a what if thread like the one you linked to not a this actually happened thread. In that case I think Intel would not suffer that much. A very small percentage of their cpus actually end up in Apple products so I think Intel would be ok.

 

[ksec]

Intel must design their chips to work on Windows, Mac and Linux. That's quite a lot of significantly different operating systems and surely can be a bit limiting and compromising. Once Intel no longer has to consider macOS in their designs, will there be some small improvements and 'wins' for Intels chips?

Sorry i read that a few times, and still don't understand what you are saying.

 

[aigomorla]

This is bad for some apple enthusiast.

Being able to use Intel parts, has allowed them to build hackintoshs for much cheaper then what apple would charge them, and even feature better core parts, like watercooling a hackintosh, and putting a high end gpu inside.

Now your going to be completely at the mercy of Apple, and Apple will not be nice with prices.

Well, thank god im not on Apple, nor do i see myself ever in the future.

 

[bbhaag]

This is bad for some apple enthusiast.

Being able to use Intel parts, has allowed them to build hackintoshs for much cheaper then what apple would charge them, and even feature better core parts, like watercooling a hackintosh, and putting a high end gpu inside.

Now your going to be completely at the mercy of Apple, and Apple will not be nice with prices.

Well, thank god im not on Apple, nor do i see myself ever in the future.

I might be a little fuzzy on my tech history but wasn't it Intel that bent Apple to their will? If I remember right Intels process was so superior to Apples that Apple eventually gave up on their X86 cpus and started building systems based on Intel designs. Then that is what allowed for the whole hackintosh phenomenon right?

 

[TheELF]

I might be a little fuzzy on my tech history but wasn't it Intel that bent Apple to their will? If I remember right Intels process was so superior to Apples that Apple eventually gave up on their X86 cpus and started building systems based on Intel designs. Then that is what allowed for the whole hackintosh phenomenon right?

Apple stared out on Motorola 68000 Cpus,when those peaked out apple switched over to PowerPC CPUs wich where risc CPUs as well,that's what ARM is essentially,when they saw that risc peaked and can't scale anymore that's when they went for intel's x86,sure now x86 peaked as well but there is no alternative that is better.

 

[Eug]

^^^ Not quite. Mac OS X is the result of the purchase of NeXT. NeXT OS was platform agnostic, and Steve Jobs’ personal machine was actually an IBM ThinkPad running NeXT OS / Openstep.

When Apple bought NeXT and installed Jobs as the iCEO, Jobs wanted to switch Macs to Intel, but the developers were not interested mainly because of their legacy code all being PowerPC based.

Apple made the move to Intel a lot later than what Jobs really wanted.

 

[moinmoin]

Intel must design their chips to work on Windows, Mac and Linux.

That's backward. CPUs are not designed for specific OSes. CPUs are designed to offer and support specific ISAs, OSes are then designed and compiled to make use of those.

 

[naukkis]

Apple consider changing macs from x86 to Aarch64. Intel can of course also build Aarch64 cpus. Actually one have to wonder what is kept Intel from entering ARM-markets as it's plain obvious that x86 is losing ground everywhere.