Ba da dadewa ba Apple ya sanar da cewa zai daina amfani da kwakwalwan Intel na x86-64 don canzawa zuwa amfani Kananan kwakwalwan hannu. Abin da suka kira Apple Silicon, wanda ba kwakwalwan kwamfuta bane tare da ARM IP cores, amma zai zama ainihin tushen ISA ARM, amma Apple ne ya tsara shi.
Own Linus Torvalds Ya ce zai yi kyau a samu Kananan makamai masu karfi don ci gaba, ta yadda za ka iya tattara su ba tare da amfani da hada-hada don wannan ginin ba. Amma ba tare da la'akari da duk wannan ba, ya kamata ka sani cewa akwai wasu kwamfutoci da ke da waɗannan kwakwalwan sama da Rasberi Pi. Misali, Pinebook Pro ARM, wanda za'a iya yin oda (pre-order) na $ 199 tare da Linux.
Wadannan kwamfyutocin suna da 14.1 ″ IPS LCD FullHD allon, Dual-Core ARM 1.8Ghz Cortex-A72 64-bit chip, da Quad-Core Cortex-A53 1.4Ghz, tare da MALI T-860 guda huɗu don GPU, 4GB LPDDR4 RAM , 64 GB eMMC 5.0 ajiya da tsarin aiki GNU / Linux. Tabbas, kwamfutar tafi-da-gidanka za ta sami WiFi, Bluetooth 5.0, USB 3.0 (A da C), microSD slot da jack na sauti ...
Lafiya, amma ina zan tafi da wannan duka? Da kyau, mai sauqi. Kamar yadda yake a ɓangaren sabobin kuma HPC yana fara ganin ƙarin ARM, har ma zaku san hakan ƙungiya mafi ƙarfi a cikin Top500 ya dogara da ARM, da alama abu ɗaya zai faru kaɗan kaɗan a cikin ɓangaren PC, har ma fiye da haka tare da kalaman da Apple ya fara cewa tabbas da yawa za su yi amfani da damar don "haɓaka" kansu. Kamar yadda ya faru da iPods da lambar mp3 players waɗanda suka fito daga wasu nau'ikan amfani da zazzabin waɗannan na'urori ...
ARM ba kawai yana da abubuwan amfani bayyananne dangane da ingancin makamashi (amfani yana da mahimmanci ga muhalli da kuma fadada ikon cinikin batura), hakanan ya mamaye yanki kadan a cikin sinadarin silicon, ta yadda za a iya aiwatar da karin ginshikai a kowane yanki fiye da yadda ake yi da sauran gine-gine kamar su x86. Wannan na iya zama kyakkyawan kadara a yanzu duk lokacin da muke kusa da iyakar silinon, don rage farashi da wadatar amfanin ƙasa. Sabili da haka, bai kamata a raina ARM ba a matsakaiciyar lokaci a kan PC, kuma ba za a raina RISC-V ba, wanda ke bin sawunta duk da cewa har yanzu ba shi da ɗan girma).
Chromebooks tare da ARMs sun daɗe suna aiki.
Duk da samun babbar nasara a cikin Amurka da kuma kyakkyawan biyayya daga masu amfani da ita (maimaitawa) a wasu kasuwannin, Google da abokan haɗin gwiwar sun yanke shawarar ƙin nacewa akan wannan tayin.
Kwanan nan kamfanin Huawei ya fitar da PC na hannu na hannu tare da UOS (Lignux na kasar Sin bisa Deepin) cewa, tunda ba a sayar da shi a Yammacin duniya ba, ba a ba shi kulawa mai yawa ba, amma da alama zai samar da kayan aikin ga gwamnatin kasar Sin, wadanda sune ba 'yan tallace-tallace kai tsaye da kuma kai tsaye ba.
Amma Apple, kamar yadda kusan ba koyaushe yake kirkirar bindiga ba, kodayake tabbas SoC dinsa zai kasance mafi karfi lokacin da kayan komputa na ARM zasu fito kuma nan bada jimawa ba Samsung, wanda ke yin adreno (acronym for radeon) navi don wayoyin hannu zasu saki mafi ƙarfi, saboda duniya haka take (ko kuma watakila ni ba Python bane).
Har yanzu ina tuna farkon 2000s, lokacin da Steve Jobs ya ce Macintoshes "zai iya harba duk wani PC na jakarta," kuma rukunin masu son rai sun danganta ikon da suke tsammani ga masu sarrafa PowerPC, kuma Intel abokin gaba ne. A cikin 2005 akwai fiye da ɗaya waɗanda suka kusan kuka tare da canji ga masu sarrafa Intel, suna hasashen cewa zai zama ƙarshen Macs, kuma yanzu za a iya girka su akan kowace PC. Barka da zuwa wannan abin da ake tsammani na musamman.
Abinda kawai ya faru shine Apple yana sayar da kwamfyutocin cinya wanda, tare da ƙarfin sarrafawar guda ɗaya, ya ninka sau biyu ko ma sau uku idan aka kwatanta da sauran nau'ikan. Me zai faru yanzu? Shin fanboys za su sake kusantar Intel kuma su maimaita cewa ikon mac yana cikin masu keɓance 'keɓaɓɓu'?