What, what, no! If Apple gets it during 1996, Gil Amelio still aquihires Steve Jobs back into the CEO position that year, and I'm pretty sure that Steve could use his Reality Distortion Field™ to convince the AI that it would be insanely great not to upgrade all humans into Cybermen.
Actually what really happens is that if we got a computing device from 2012 back to 1992, like, that's cool and all, but it doesn't tell you that much about the fabbing process that makes a chip. Sure, you get a proven design, and all sorts of tricks that you could use to design other chips... but unless you can make 20nm process chips, what ya gonna do? It's not like you can just scale the design up, that will just make the magic smoke come out very fast from thermal runaway. There are probably some material science things to learn (not really an expert), but it's not like we had a huge breakthrough in semiconductors in the last 30 years. Which is kind of the problem right now.
But either way Apple would invest more in ARM architecture, probably meaning that Intel Macs never get made. But hey, RISC is pretty cool and more energy efficient.
Actually what really happens is that if we got a computing device from 2012 back to 1992, like, that's cool and all, but it doesn't tell you that much about the fabbing process that makes a chip. Sure, you get a proven design, and all sorts of tricks that you could use to design other chips... but unless you can make 20nm process chips, what ya gonna do? It's not like you can just scale the design up, that will just make the magic smoke come out very fast from thermal runaway. There are probably some material science things to learn (not really an expert), but it's not like we had a huge breakthrough in semiconductors in the last 30 years. Which is kind of the problem right now.
But either way Apple would invest more in ARM architecture, probably meaning that Intel Macs never get made. But hey, RISC is pretty cool and more energy efficient.
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