Jean-Louis Gassee has changed his mind about the ARM Mac shift, and now believes that an ARM Mac Pro is the inevitable endpoint —and is not that far away.
According to Gassee, the ARM Mac is on its way. In a change of mind, he now agrees with Ming Chi Kuo’s own 12 month to 18 month timeline for the first ARM Mac to shift.
Gassee’s primary concern, however, is now not if it will happen, but how Apple will handle such a transition.
The previous transition from PowerPC to Intel took about a year, and every single new Mac sold was on Intel at the end. This was possible because the market was much smaller and much less complicated than the market of today.
Gassee suggests that, while the entire Mac line could easily shift to ARM, a single outlier raises an issue —the Mac Pro. While Apple’s A-series chipsets are worthy contenders against most consumer laptop chipsets, they still do not hold a candle to the Xeon chips used for the top-of-the-line Macs.
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