The “whole bunch more” is the customization of the ARM architecture, memory system enchancement, new GPU architectures, core designs, controller designs, Neural Engine and other specialized processors all on one chip (4 nm TSMC fab). The only thing that is “ARM” is the instruction set architecture.
Jonathan > On Jun 25, 2020, at 6:42 PM, René J.V. Bertin <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thursday June 25 2020 16:21:36 Jonathan Prescott wrote: > > Peachy O:-) > > I guess it was coming, giving how they've been making them behave more and > more like giant iPads with keyboards and such... > Oh well, it was already clear that I'd never buy a new Mac anymore. > >> Based on the announcements at WWDC, Macs are going to transition to “Apple >> Silicon” based on Apple implementation of ARM64, plus a whole bunch more > > One *could* read this as "a whole bunch of other computer makers are going to > transition" and "Apple will become a silicon pusher". That (the 1st bit) > *would* be interesting... > > Either way I assuming there will be a new Rosetta framework, so for some time > at least existing x86 applications should continue to function more or less > normally. I seem to remember that XQuartz/PPC ran quite properly under > Rosetta, am I wrong? > > R. > _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. X11-users mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/x11-users/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
