Moving the Mac to ARM

▤ Summary

With incredibly fast performance, taking full advantage of neural engines, encode/decode blocks, accelerators, secure enclaves, and all of that, as well as phenomenal battery life. MacBooks especially avoid a lot of the software transition pain as well, since most of the people who buy them arent doing so to run DaVinci Resolve or Adobe After Effects, Pro Tools or Maya. Apple is already making its own graphics cores for mobile, and modern Macs already handle dispatch between Intel processors, ARM co-processors for things like H.265, and AMD GPU. Currently, the Metal 2 framework, as an abstraction layer to make processing less a bunch of separate silicon and more a unified set of resources to be targeted on a task-by-task basis. Theyve also worked around their loggerheads with Nvidia by getting more and more high-end app makers to port to AMD for the Mac Pro, so maybe even a workstation transition wont take as long or be as painful as it might otherwise have been.

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