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So, because Apple is moving their general computing devices to ARM-based CPU/GPU, the whole world is going to do the same, Intel will die and world peace will be achieved?

Hold your horses. No one even knows how it will perform, how Rosetta 2 will perform and if Intel is not going to hit back as it did with Qualcomm and Microsoft.

Seeing is believing, after all.

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It’s already clear they will be significantly faster, mobile battery life will be significantly longer, and Apple Silicon will be significantly cheaper than I86 processors. The A12 and A13 already demonstrate this in much tighter thermal packaging than MacBooks or iMacs, and they use last generation process size.

And Rosetta 2 has already been benchmarked, and the results were amazing even on a two year old iPad processor.

Intel has nothing to hit back with.

A few people have already published results of Geekbench 4 of the DTK and the performance is impressive already, specially considering that the DTK is using a 2-year old chip, in an emulated environment. The chances that Intel will hit back is fairly small. In the last several years we have seen a gigantic brain-leak from the company, and is unlikely that they'll keep being reference for performance for much longer.

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