Why Apple Started Making Its Own Chips

Apple is well known for making big splashy announcements whenever it unveils a game-changing piece of new tech like the iPod, or iPad. Strangely, last year the Cupertino giant made an announcement every bit as revolutionary, but one which largely escaped notice by the general public.

The announcement, made at the firm’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference, confirmed Apple would start designing and manufacturing its own chips for Mac computers. To be clear, it’s not just tech geeks and tiresome Apple fanboys who need to be aware of what the announcement means, and what its implications are. So today we’re donning our black turtleneck and addressing a hushed auditorium to explain why Apple is making its own chips.

For several years now, Apple has been sourcing its CPUs from household-name chip giant Intel. This special relationship between Apple and Intel started back in 2006, after Apple’s previously favoured IBM-Motorola chips were written off as inadequate.

Why Apple Is Making Its Own Chips

[jbgardner]

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[billylardner]

Some other points not mentioned:
- They don’t have to wait for Intel to develop new chips
- They have complete control over both hardware and software (better integration)
- Bigger profit margins

This is honestly the biggest evolution of tech in years and nobody apart from tech geeks seems to be recognising it.

[dearcrush_XD]

Now, Apple's chip and AMD's Ryzen force Intel to do something they haven't yet.

[jetscreamer]

Start selling those Intel stock if you got them, people.

[typedef_]

no one says A R M. Its just "ARM"

[Wunderkinddd]

This is the crown jewel piece apple needed and have now finally conquered. The next 2 years will be transition phase but after that Apple will have power in laptops that no one can compete on because of optimisation, fanless powerful laptops with extreme battery life and super lightweight as the motherboard is smaller and will be cheaper helping Apple to price its future laptops at a lower point. This holds well for the future of Apple.

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[mannudwivedi]

Yes software developer should rush to fulfill their obligations to m1 chip otherwise other developer will fill the shoe

[lghammer]

I just upgraded my computer, from a LapTop I'd been rocking for nearly 5 years to a new (& my 1st ever) Mac Computer. I ended up choosing the M1 Mac Mini, to be as different from my last computer as possible & also because my ol'Laptop served me so well I didn't just want to change it with a similar device, I wanted it to be a whole new learning experience. I am absolutely blown away by the M1 Mac Minis performance & I am hoping to be making a Tech&Science initial review video for it this coming weekend 😃

[SirStanchez]

Sadly the side effect of the new chips is that “hack”intosh is now fully dead

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[BohdanTrotsenko]

2:00 you missed on the memory speed

previously memory was slow; CISC made sense and won in practice over an equivalent RISC chip.
Apple made M1 as a fast (and simpler) RISC chip paired with fast memory on a single die (and, moreover, there's a big.little architecture)

[pablorosario]

I’m very thankful that Apple released the M1 chip, now every CPU manufacturer will up their game and we the consumers would benefit from this competition

[theenergizer]

The next apple integration project; to make "potato chips" to eat while using your apple device!

[ronlohse]

To me, the big part of this move, on top of the cost, control and performance gains that Apple has produced their own chips, is that Developers can write code that with minor tweaks to account for display size and input formats will work on both Mac and IOS devices. That places a HUGE established market to be exploited without having to write code totally differently for Mac and IOS. And the number of IOS devices is HUGE.

[constantinandro]

This really awaked my interest in apple, i may even buy a mac air if they release a M3 generation chip

[joao]

Modern CISC designs are only CISC to the user, they're all pretty much RISC internally. The instruction decoder breaks the "complex" instructions into smaller RISC-like uops and those are then executed through the pipelines. ARM designs can be faster because they're simpler and have fewer abstractions layers, fixed length instructions are, for example, much easier to decode when you need to decode hundreds of them while predicting branches.

[AnonymousMC]

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[Firestorm]

M1 chip in MacBook Air, Pro, and mini. Next year M1 in imac. I just bought a M1 Mac mini. It is as fast as my phone. No waiting to
boot up, searching is instant, no waiting. I hated using my computer as it was so slow vs iPad and phone. That new chip is a game changer.