Maynard Handley (name99.delete@this.name99.org) on June 22, 2020 2:25 pm wrote:

> The point of the exercise is to reassure customers that "all the apps you know and love will work
> without a hitch". The point is NOT to show tech-heads how much faster one CPU is than another.
> This is not a product demonstration; the demo systems are A12Z, not the SoCs that will ship (which
> will be at the very least A14 based,

I totally agree with this.

> > IMO we have to wait a couple years for Apple to release a desktop ARM chip before drawing
> > conclusions (or at least for the A12Z dev kit to get out into the wild). They said the transition
> > would last that long. And I hope they do well, because that'll light a fire under Intel and
> > AMD. The next few years should be very interesting for CPU microarchitecture.
>
> End user macs will ship end of this year (ie A14 based, IMHO). Two year transition
> probably means that A15 (next year) will be the one that scales larger (beyond
> 8+8?) cores via whatever mechanism (chiplets? separate die?)

I think desktop parts really are the most challenging portion of the Mac line. It'll be interesting to see what they do.

David