It's a dangerous time to get involved in Appleyland since it looks like they are going with ARM in the very near future, breaking all existing software and raising other serious questions...
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“Computationally I can see a Core i3 or low-end Core i5,” says Patrick Moorhead, founder of Moor Insights & Strategy, comparing ARM’s abilities to entry-level Intel chips. “I can't imagine that by 2020 they’d have a processor anywhere near the capabilities of a Xeon or a Core i7.”
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https://www.wired.co.uk/article/appl...kalamata-intel
My personal predictions remain that:
a) They are going to do it, to make a couple of hundred bucks extra profit per unit.
b) They will go many-core for marketing reasons, perhaps with one or two high clocked cores, also for marketing reasons.