Yesterday, former Apple leader and founder of Be Inc. Jean-Louis Gassée published Monday Note the current opinion how ARM processors could be received by Intel & # 39; s x86s from a Mac range In the near future.
With all the speculation we are facing in this regard, it is not uncommon for rumors of a future Mac to have a processor grow. So far, Apple has shown that its ARM processors can bring the latest Intel iX performance of the x86 offer (you just have to see the functionality offered by the iPad Pro) but doubts grow when we talk about Apple's highest-profile, Mac Pro. Eliminating the belief that an ARM processor will not be able to provide the life needed for such a computer has had to be a third party to Apple that has proven to be not only feasible, but also that it does about half of its partner's x86 power consumption on the Intel Xeon r ange.
Ampere, a company founded by Intel's former president Renée James and widely supported by Oracle or the Carlyle Group, designed and marketed the most efficient ARM processors competing with Intel Xeon which are used on cloud servers, and as we mentioned with less usage. Speaking of the numbers Gasée threw, the use of Ampere ARM processor is 210 Watts with 400 partners on Intel Xeon, about half.
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With an ARM processor to cover the entire range available from Mac, Apple will no longer need to think its system is as fragmented as it has been thought so far, which has kept Intel above the professional range and has left its ARM models at the highest sales volume.
Another issue that Gasée talked about was the production of ARM's Mac Pro chip, because Apple would make its own chips. While volume units are sold on other models it won't be a problem, because we're talking about millions, with Mac Pro it is possible that the production of this chip itself will be reduced to a few thousand and it may not be profitable to produce very few units by comparison. Then it will be easy to follow the alliance with Intel, which can design the current Xeon at a much larger volume.
We have been hearing rumors of Mac computers and ArM processors since 2018, and they are said to be among us within the next 12-18 months. It is unlikely that they will reach the full range at the same time but at least we can hope that it is possible to build on all levels of functionality, which means that they have, on average, been able to cover the whole range.