{"id":110126,"date":"2020-07-18T03:02:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T10:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/former-mac-boss-predicts-pc-makers-will-have-to-dump-amd-and-intel-to-go-arm"},"modified":"2020-07-18T03:02:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T10:02:24","slug":"former-mac-boss-predicts-pc-makers-will-have-to-dump-amd-and-intel-to-go-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/former-mac-boss-predicts-pc-makers-will-have-to-dump-amd-and-intel-to-go-arm","title":{"rendered":"Former Mac boss predicts PC makers will have to dump AMD and Intel to \u2018go ARM\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/former-mac-boss-predicts-pc-makers-will-have-to-dump-amd-and-intel-to-go-arm2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, you\u2019ve set aside a chunk of change to build a new gaming PC and are just waiting for AMD and Nvidia to launch their next-gen GPUs, is that it? A solid plan, except for one thing\u2014your next build is already obsolete. That\u2019s because whatever you spec\u2019d out is undoubtedly sitting on an AMD or Intel foundation, and didn\u2019t you hear, x86 computing is basically dead. Finished. Kaput. We\u2019re on the cusp of the end of an era, and all because Apple is dumping Intel for ARM.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, maybe not, but that\u2019s essentially the case made by Jean-Louis Gass\u00e9e, a former Apple executive who led the development of Mac computers in the late 1980s. In no uncertain terms, he says Apple\u2019s decision to phase out Intel CPUs in favor of its own silicon based on ARM will force \u201cPC OEMs to reconsider their allegiance to x86 silicon\u2026and that will have serious consequences for the old Wintel partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, you\u2019ve set aside a chunk of change to build a new gaming PC and are just waiting for AMD and Nvidia to launch their next-gen GPUs, is that it? A solid plan, except for one thing\u2014your next build is already obsolete. That\u2019s because whatever you spec\u2019d out is undoubtedly sitting on an AMD or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}