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Re: Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC [ARM, TSMC, 5nm, A14]

Subject Re: Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC [ARM, TSMC, 5nm, A14]
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.advocacy
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From Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com>
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Date 2020-06-24 10:02 -0400

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On 2020-06-22 20:20, JF Mezei wrote:
> On 2020-06-22 20:03, Alan Baker wrote:
>> On 2020-06-22 4:43 p.m., JF Mezei wrote:
>>> On 2020-06-22 16:29, nospam wrote:
>>>
>>>> it's much more than 'arm-based chips'.
>>>
>>>   From the compiler's point of view, the code that runs on the CPU is ARM.
>>
>> Which doesn't make chips designed by Apple any less "Apple silicon" than
>> running Intel's instruction set makes AMD's chips.
> 
> I never implied such.  The fact remains that Apple has implemneted the
> ARM architecture and as such, the code that runs in the CPU runs the ARM
> instruction set, as generated by the compiler.  

See my other reply.  Apple's architecture very likely has extended 
instructions and thus "the compiler" and/or assembler has to be Apple's 
- not ARM's.

Such would be key to Apple getting the most out of their designs in 
their high principle of hardware/software integration.

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Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC  [ARM, TSMC, 5nm, A14] Arlen Holder <arlenholder@newmachine.com> - 2020-06-09 14:28 +0000
  Re: Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC [ARM, TSMC, 5nm, A14] Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> - 2020-06-09 11:27 -0700
    Re: Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC [ARM, TSMC, 5nm, A14] JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2020-06-09 16:58 -0400
      Re: Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC [ARM, TSMC, 5nm, A14] Arlen Holder <arlenholder@newmachine.com> - 2020-06-22 02:38 +0000
        OT: Why must Arlen lie? (was Re: Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC [ARM, TSMC, 5nm, A14] Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> - 2020-06-22 01:10 -0700
        Re: Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC [ARM, TSMC, 5nm, A14] Arlen Holder <arlenholder@newmachine.com> - 2020-06-22 19:50 +0000
          Re: Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC [ARM, TSMC, 5nm, A14] nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-06-22 16:29 -0400
            Re: Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC [ARM, TSMC, 5nm, A14] JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2020-06-22 19:43 -0400
              Re: Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC [ARM, TSMC, 5nm, A14] nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-06-22 20:02 -0400
                Re: Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC [ARM, TSMC, 5nm, A14] Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2020-06-24 09:59 -0400
                Re: Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC [ARM, TSMC, 5nm, A14] nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-06-24 10:24 -0400
                Re: Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC [ARM, TSMC, 5nm, A14] Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2020-06-24 10:43 -0400
                Re: Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC [ARM, TSMC, 5nm, A14] JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2020-06-24 16:17 -0400
                Re: Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC [ARM, TSMC, 5nm, A14] nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-06-24 16:19 -0400
              Re: Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC [ARM, TSMC, 5nm, A14] Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> - 2020-06-22 17:03 -0700
                Re: Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC [ARM, TSMC, 5nm, A14] JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2020-06-22 20:20 -0400
                Re: Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC [ARM, TSMC, 5nm, A14] Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> - 2020-06-22 17:52 -0700
                Re: Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC [ARM, TSMC, 5nm, A14] Bud Frede <frede@mouse-potato.com> - 2020-06-27 17:57 -0400
                Re: Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC [ARM, TSMC, 5nm, A14] Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2020-06-28 10:29 +1200
                Re: Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC [ARM, TSMC, 5nm, A14] Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> - 2020-06-27 19:31 -0700
                Re: Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC [ARM, TSMC, 5nm, A14] Tim <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2020-06-28 12:29 +0000
                Re: Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC [ARM, TSMC, 5nm, A14] Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2020-06-24 10:02 -0400
              Re: Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC [ARM, TSMC, 5nm, A14] Arlen Holder <arlenholder@newmachine.com> - 2020-06-23 04:51 +0000
              Re: Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC [ARM, TSMC, 5nm, A14] Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2020-06-24 10:04 -0400
            Re: Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC [ARM, TSMC, 5nm, A14] Arlen Holder <arlenholder@newmachine.com> - 2020-06-23 05:01 +0000
          Re: Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC [ARM, TSMC, 5nm, A14] Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> - 2020-06-22 14:03 -0700
            Re: Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC [ARM, TSMC, 5nm, A14] Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2020-06-23 09:47 +1200
              Re: Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC [ARM, TSMC, 5nm, A14] Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> - 2020-06-22 15:33 -0700
              Re: Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC [ARM, TSMC, 5nm, A14] Arlen Holder <arlenholder@newmachine.com> - 2020-06-23 16:02 +0000
                Re: Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC [ARM, TSMC, 5nm, A14] David Sankey <David.Sankey@stfc.ac.uk> - 2020-06-23 18:28 +0100
                Re: Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC [ARM, TSMC, 5nm, A14] Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2020-06-24 10:50 -0400
                Re: Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC [ARM, TSMC, 5nm, A14] Arlen Holder <arlenholder@newmachine.com> - 2020-06-24 15:22 +0000
                Re: Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC [ARM, TSMC, 5nm, A14] David Sankey <David.Sankey@stfc.ac.uk> - 2020-06-24 17:36 +0100
                Re: Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC [ARM, TSMC, 5nm, A14] Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> - 2020-06-23 14:48 -0700
  Re: Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC  [ARM, TSMC, 5nm, A14] Arlen Holder <arlenholder@newmachine.com> - 2020-06-26 02:27 +0000

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