Comment on What if Apple / other brands sold desktop chips?
Rudee@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
The Exynos, M series, and Qualcomm chips are all ARM architecture, as opposed to the AMD and Intel CPUs, which are x86.
Because of this, the majority of software wouldn’t natively work on them. Apple has obviously developed versions of many programs that function on their laptops, and could extend the same treatment to the hypothetical desktop product. The other chip companies do not have this benefit, and would have to develop supported software from the ground up
scheep@lemmy.world 5 days ago
also, it would be really tricky to get people to buy new, probably expensive ARM motherboards (especially with Apple involved)
entwine413@lemm.ee 5 days ago
It would likely open up the market for arm motherboards, since they’re not the only player in the game. I think it would ultimately be a good thing, but it would probably take a decade or so to truly compete with x86-64.