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[Bofferbrauer2]

LurkerJ said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

I don't see Apple putting the ARM Chips into their Apple Mac Pro and iMac Pro lines of Workstations anytime soon unless they put a kiloton of those into one. As in, at least 64 CPUs (32 big, 32 LITTLE) to make up for the performance differences between Intel's X86 and ARM. And that's with continuing using AMD GPUs.

In other words, they woud get too big to be worth it for the big models right now. For reference, the A13 is about 98mm² large with just 2 big and 4LITTLE CPUs; current Intel and AMD mobile chips are around 160mm² in size, Intel's 8 core Coffee Lake is 176mm², Comet Lake around 202mm² and the HCC Cascade Lake in the Mac Pro around 485mm². So even if we remove the GPU, an A13 blown up to 64 cores would probably result into a bigger chip than the HCC Cascade Lake despite the latter being produced in 14nm while the A13 is produced in 7nm.

ARM-based Air lineup and bringing back the discontinued Macbook would be a good start. 

Yeah, the normal consumer Laptops and Macs can make the jump; I just don't expect the prosumer and professional hardware to switch to ARM anytime soon, not just due to performance, but also due to compatibility issues.