Apple is building its own Mac CPUs, does this mean ARM has won? | Upscaled

After almost 15 years of using Intel chips in its laptops and desktops, Apple announced it will be transitioning its computers over to use chips based on the designs in the iPhone and iPad.

This will mark the first time in years we'll see high-performance designs based on RISC designs. RISC was a design philosophy developed in the early 80s to fix a lot of the problems in early CPUS. It was revolutionary, but in recent years RISC has been relegated to low-powered and battery bound devices while CISC chips like those from Intel and AMD dominate the high-end of computing.

But as smartphone chips have gotten more powerful, a debate has started over whether RISC is an inherently superior design. Apple sure seems to think it can use ARM-based RISC chips to make some truly powerful processors, but like everything in computing, it's a bit more complicated than that.

Check out our sources and some other great videos on this topic below

The Evolution Of CPU Processing Power Part 1: The Mechanics Of A CPU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK-49uz3lGg

Programming Like It's 1979: 6502 Assembly language on the Apple ][
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNOj6GTzfGY

Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie Explain UNIX (Bell Labs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoVQTPbD6UY

Processing Integrated Circuits at Bell Labs (1979) - AT&T Archives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLReXtpNlbw

The Computer Chronicles - Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) (1986)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIccm7H3OA0

UNIX: Making Computers Easier To Use -- AT&T Archives film from 1982, Bell Laboratories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvDZLjaCJuw&list=PLDB8B8220DEE96FD9&index=31&

The Computer Chronicles - PowerPC and PowerMac (1994)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic0dkf1iFOY

How Computer Chips are made - Commodore Computer Factory Tour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu8Fi0tC9IA

ACM A.M. Turing Award 2017: David Patterson and John Hennessy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OmnybxvTzA

IBM RISC System/6000 Introduction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQSTg2nA65M&t

SGI Indy UNIX Workstation Review (1993) - Silicon Classics #7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk_JjfeChQA&t=373s

Silicon Graphics - Onyx Infinite Reality 50FPS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY1mi0809BQ

How To Make Bread | Jamie Oliver - AD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrUdtzXquWk

Apple October Event 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfHEnw6Rm-4&t=23s

 
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