Hell freezes over; it must’ve been the liquid cooling: Hannibal on the Apple-to-Intel transition. Ars CPU Editor Jon "Hannibal" Stokes looks at the Apple-to-Intel transition …. by Jon Stokes - Jun 9, 2005 2:00 am UTC.
Now that the shock from the Apple-Intel announcement has had some time to set in, it's time to take a look at what this means for the Mac platform in the near- and long-term future. I've tried to make the present article a complement to John Siracusa's article on the transition. which means that I cover different ground and I address a few of the questions that he raised. Specifically, this article is focused on the CPU hardware part of the Apple-to-Intel transition picture, with some thoughts at the end on what it all means.
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Because I've saved my more general remarks on the significance of the transition for the article's conclusion, we can dive right into the technical details first. A bottom-up transition. Steve Jobs' announcement that Apple would introduce Intel processors into its products at the laptop and low-end levels makes a ton of sense. First, portables are the place where Apple is hurting the most, due to IBM's inability to deliver a portable-class G5 chip. When I bought my 667MHz TiBook back in 2002, it was a solid value.
There was no x86-based laptop that had the TiBook's combination of screen size, battery life, form factor, performance, and overall feature set for any price. So the. US$3,000 that I paid for the TiBook, a price that wasn't much higher at the time than a high-end PC laptop, was fairly reasonable. I don't really have to go into much detail about the current, pathetic state of Apple's portable line. Even if the Pentium M didn't spank the G4 in performance per watt, I could still sum up in a single phrase the reason that three years later I'm still limping along with the same TiBook: 166MHz frontside bus. This is just unacceptable for a machine with a price tag as high as the 15" PowerBook. In marked contrast to the currently stagnating G4, the Pentium M is fast, and Centrino is a great, full-featured, low-cost mobile platform that just kills anything that Apple could hope to offer based on parts from either IBM or Freescale.
Apple needs the Pentium M in its mobile line, and it needs it yesterday. The second reason why it makes sense to introduce x86 via the portable and low-end Macintosh lines is that neither of those lines have any need for a 64-bit processor. Yonah (see below), which is the dual-core Pentium M derivative that Apple will probably put in its first x86-based PowerBooks and Minis, will not support x86-64.
By the time x86-64 has spread widely throughout the Pentium desktop line at the end of 2006, Apple will be ready to introduce 64-bit Pentium-based PowerMacs. In this respect, Apple's x86 platform shift strategy is deliberately the reverse of Intel's 64-bit platform shift strategy. Intel is introducing 64-bit support into its products from the top down, with the mobile processors not getting 64-bit support until late 2006/early 2007. Apple, for its part, already has just such a 64-bit workstation/32-bit mobile split with the 970/G4 pairing. So Apple can swap the 32-bit G4 for Intel's 32-bit Yonah, and gain an instant performance boost where they need it most without sacrificing a prominent feature like 64-bit support.
Later, as Intel moves to 64 bits across its entire desktop line, Apple will upgrade its existing 64-bit PPC parts with higher-performing 64-bit Intel parts. The end result is that as Intel makes the transition to 64 bits, Apple will make the transition to Intel. The PowerMac and Intel: 2006 and beyond. 64-bit support is just one of the things that Apple will probably require in their first Intel-based PowerMac. Intel's road map for 2006 and beyond is marked by moves in the following directions.
64-bit support. 65nm process technology. Security/virtualization (i.
Lagrande, Active Management Technology, Vanderpool, etc. "Platformization" (i. development and marketing of CPU and feature-rich chipset combinations).
Performance per watt. You can expect that Apple will want the first Intel processors in the PowerMac line to embody all or most of the above elements.
The big question is whether Apple will want skip the Netburst architecture altogether, or whether they'll use it in their first run of Intel-based PowerMacs. (For you Mac folks, Netburst is the deeply pipelined, high-clockspeed architecture that first debuted in the Pentium 4.
) The timing of the PPC-to-Intel transition depends on how you answer that question. Presler, a Netburst-based Pentium D successor, will debut in Q1 2006 with many of the features outlined above. It's dual-core, supports 64-bit x86, is built on a 65nm process, and includes the security and virtualization technologies listed above. Cedar Mill is a single core version of Presler that will debut around the same time.
Could either or both of these wind up in the PowerMac line. I think the answer is, probably not. First, Presler probably will not perform better on Apple's early 2006 application base than whatever dual-970 solution that IBM will have out at the time. In spite of the fact that it still hasn't hit 3GHz, the 970 is a really nice processor and it's going to be a nice processor for the remainder of 2005 and into 2006. Second, and even more importantly, Jobs' keynote described a two-year, bottom-up x86 transition that starts in early or mid-2006 with the Mac Mini, is "mostly complete" by June 2007 (the laggard is probably the Xserve), and is complete by the end of 2007 (including the Xserve).
Since Presler and Cedar Mill are slated for debut at the start of 2006, this makes it unlikely that they'll go right into a PowerMac that ships shortly after their launch. Rather, Jobs' comments lead one to believe that Apple will start releasing Intel-based PowerMacs in late 2006, which is right about the time that Intel is planning to release Conroe. Conroe is a dual-core desktop chip that has all of the features in my list above, and is based on the successor to the Pentium M's "Banias" architecture. This new, "completely revamped" dual-core architecture will supposedly give a 20-30% performance boost over the current Pentium M and will be the nail in the coffin of the power-inefficient Netburst architecture. I think Conroe is the most likely candidate for the first Intel-based PowerMac, because it would allow Apple to skip Netburst entirely. The following hypothetical Apple-Intel road map is based on the reasonable presumption that Apple does not consider the ageing, power-hungry Netburst architecture to be an improvement over the relatively new and powerful G5 architecture, and that they'll skip Netburst entirely in favor of Yonah and its more power-efficient successors.