The latest articles on Forem by leob (@leob). https://forem.com/leob https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F28704%2F616e76ac-2a61-4758-8dcd-da819cec4c85.jpg https://forem.com/leob en leob Wed, 28 Oct 2020 05:09:19 +0000 https://forem.com/leob/apple-arm-announcement-and-what-it-means-38o0 https://forem.com/leob/apple-arm-announcement-and-what-it-means-38o0 <p>So, Apple recently announced that their Macs will be transitioning from Intel based CPUs to ARM chips:</p> <p><a href="https://www.inputmag.com/tech/apple-arm-chip-cpu-hardware-details" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.inputmag.com/tech/apple-arm-chip-cpu-hardware-details</a></p> <p>I didn't see this one coming and it came to me as a pretty big shock!</p> <p>What to make out of this?</p> <p>Macs are quite popular among devs as workstations - will it stay that way, will this change put people off and have them looking for alternatives, or doesn't it really matter?</p> <p>Is there a risk that this might lead to fragmentation - making things harder in terms of supporting, maintaining and installing open source or third party software/packages? (in terms of having to support more CPU architectures)</p> <p>Or will other platforms (PCs, Windows, Linux) simply follow suit and also jump ship to embrace ARM? (so that this just becomes the new norm)</p> <p>Is the move from Intel to ARM even a thing server-side (I have no idea if a move to ARM would even make any sense in the cloud or the data center, I'm pretty clueless TBH).</p> <p>Curious about your thoughts!</p> discuss