Considering Microsoft finally added the x86 compatibility to Windows on ARM as soon as Apple launched M1 based Macs I don't think your comment will age very well. Slightly trolling here, sorry.
More seriously, the reason for dropping x86 is not Apple saying so but the fact that we've essentially hit the limits of Moore's law. You can't make transistors smaller than a couple nanometers. The only way to increase computing power is to marry all purpose processing cores with purpose-built cores that do heavy lifting in specific domains like Apple did with its Neural Processing Engine or whatever they call it.
I thought I had made it clear that my comment was tongue in cheek. Anyway. What I was referring to with my comment was this https://www.theregister.com/20... [theregister.com] Windows 10 on ARM didn't have an x86-64 emulation and it still doesn't except in preview. The timing could be coincidental but Apple announced Rosetta 2 and Microsoft realised they need to show the world they have already been working on the same thing, too.
You also make a lot of assumptions about me. I am not an Apple fanboy. I use Windows 10, Kubunt
There are a ton of brilliant developers at Microsoft. The entire team working on.NET Core is just one facet I think are brilliant. Where Microsoft typically falls on its sword is the conceptual vision and the management that is needed to get there. Windows RT...very smart to open up Windows to ARM processors, which is where the mobile world was headed. Dumb idea to wall it off from the rest of the Windows world. Instead, they should have dogpiled their hardware and software teams into solving the ARM/x86 d
The Industry Follows Apple Again (Score:5, Insightful)
Apple: Drops non-USB Legacy ports
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Others: Drop non-USB Legacy ports
Apple: Drops Floppy drives
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Others: Drop Floppy drives
Apple: Drops Floppy CD/DVD Rom drives
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Others: Drop CD/DVD ROM drives
Apple: Drops Headphone jack
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Others: Drop Headphone jack
Apple: Drops Charging brick
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Apple: Drops x86
Others: Laugh at Apple for dropping x86
Others: Drop x86
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considering no one has dropped x86.. . . . . . .
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Considering Microsoft finally added the x86 compatibility to Windows on ARM as soon as Apple launched M1 based Macs I don't think your comment will age very well. Slightly trolling here, sorry.
More seriously, the reason for dropping x86 is not Apple saying so but the fact that we've essentially hit the limits of Moore's law. You can't make transistors smaller than a couple nanometers. The only way to increase computing power is to marry all purpose processing cores with purpose-built cores that do heavy lifting in specific domains like Apple did with its Neural Processing Engine or whatever they call it.
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What is with you Apple fanatics always wanting to re-write history to only make it look like Apple does anything in tech?
Here is some documentation from Microsoft about Windows 10 ARM being able to run x86 code in Feb of 2018:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/porting/apps-on-arm-x86-emulation#:~:text=Emulation%20for%20x86%20apps%20makes%20the%20rich%20ecosystem,unless%20it%20calls%20specific%20APIs%20(%20IsWoW64Process2%20). [microsoft.com]
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I thought I had made it clear that my comment was tongue in cheek. Anyway. What I was referring to with my comment was this https://www.theregister.com/20... [theregister.com] Windows 10 on ARM didn't have an x86-64 emulation and it still doesn't except in preview. The timing could be coincidental but Apple announced Rosetta 2 and Microsoft realised they need to show the world they have already been working on the same thing, too.
You also make a lot of assumptions about me. I am not an Apple fanboy. I use Windows 10, Kubunt
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