By: Beastian (no.email.delete@this.aol.com), June 22, 2020 12:20 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
nobody in particular (nobody.delete@this.nowhe.re) on June 22, 2020 11:53 am wrote:
> Maynard Handley (name99.delete@this.name99.org) on June 22, 2020 11:26 am wrote:
> > It's real!!!!
>
> -Two year transition timeline
> -First systems by the end of the year
> -Support for Apple pro apps on day one
> -Microsoft and Adobe are onboard for native app support at launch
> -Virtualization kit for running Linux guests - it showed them running under Parallels,
> which I found interesting; was this x86 Parallels or ARM parallels?
>
> Everything shown off looked really, really solid. Combined with
> Fugaku's #1 this morning, this has been a good day for ARM.
Will be interesting to see what ram technology they use for a laptop mac SoC (or a desktop...) and presumably they will opt for a faster, fully integrated single chip architecture given the much better density at TSMC for 5nm and beyond with a single pool for all the processing units on board. HBM is a possibility, but a console / GPU like wide bandwidth onboard GDDR6 configuration might be a cheaper sweet-spot solution.
> Maynard Handley (name99.delete@this.name99.org) on June 22, 2020 11:26 am wrote:
> > It's real!!!!
>
> -Two year transition timeline
> -First systems by the end of the year
> -Support for Apple pro apps on day one
> -Microsoft and Adobe are onboard for native app support at launch
> -Virtualization kit for running Linux guests - it showed them running under Parallels,
> which I found interesting; was this x86 Parallels or ARM parallels?
>
> Everything shown off looked really, really solid. Combined with
> Fugaku's #1 this morning, this has been a good day for ARM.
Will be interesting to see what ram technology they use for a laptop mac SoC (or a desktop...) and presumably they will opt for a faster, fully integrated single chip architecture given the much better density at TSMC for 5nm and beyond with a single pool for all the processing units on board. HBM is a possibility, but a console / GPU like wide bandwidth onboard GDDR6 configuration might be a cheaper sweet-spot solution.