M1 Development Began in 2008

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I'm surprised it was that late ...though that lines-up with when they bought PA Semi (https://appleinsider.com/articles/08/04/23/apple_buys_chip_d...)

Oof, I was close[1]: "Honestly would not be surprised if it comes out at some point in the future that they launched the ARM-Mac project as soon as they'd successfully switched to Intel." since Wikipedia has "late 2007" for the last PowerPC release.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28941677

I'm gobsmacked. So this is what Steve meant when he felt Apple was in good hands -- what on earth are they working on now?!

I think about how Apple does things like this: What they are showing you right now is at least 5 years old to them.

> what on earth are they working on now?!

Exactly. Maybe they are working on a search engine powered by Siri, or even an Apple Car which they started years ago or perhaps AR/XR Glasses.

Who knows, I could be easily wrong. Only Apple and the future knows.

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