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Apple Silicon: The M1 ARM SOC

 https://erik-engheim.medium.com/ https://erik-engheim.medium.com/impact-of-a-32-core-apple-silicon-cpu-847b0e5e856c https://erik-engheim.medium.com/interesting-random-facts-about-arm-x86-risc-v-and-mips-7e670b249222 https://medium.com/swlh/what-does-risc-and-cisc-mean-in-2020-7b4d42c9a9de https://erik-engheim.medium.com/why-is-apples-m1-chip-so-fast-3262b158cba2 An excellent article on the new Apple M1 chips. It explains how the M1 chip is such a radical change to current PC hardware. However, the one thing he doesn't say is that it may not be that hard to run Windows on the Apple M1 machines. Microsoft already has a version that runs on similar chips designed by ARM, as used in the Apple M1. With Windows on the superior Apple M1 machines, the nexus is broken and much of the Intel intellectual property is redundant. Apple could take a huge share of the PC market. Apple is not adverse to Windows. Windows programs will run on the new M1 machines, just not as quick as if the Windows