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I doubt that, think of the amount of r&d they pour into arm for mobile. ARM will be their next platform for Macs.

Probably correct but making mobile CPUs is still a level below making the monsters our desktops are blessed with(Think of all the different SIMD etc. extensions the average Intel CPU) has these days

Virtualization support as well.

Practically all mobile chips support virtualization. In fact, Qualcomm always runs your OS (on both Android phones and Windows laptops) under its own tiny hypervisor.

> Think of all the different SIMD etc. extensions the average Intel CPU

Most programmers don't care whether a CPU has AVX512 support. Most programmers will use a library or an OS service that'll abstract that away and pick a certain code path appropriate to the running CPU.

I don't think a human being can get a full understanding of a modern x86 without major brain surgery that is not yet available.

If apple complete the switch to arm I guess the hackintosh will go into hiatus for a long time. But the recent release of Mac Pro might delay the change for sometime. However this also depends on whether the t2 chip will be forced on in later os

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