How Apple Built a Chip Powerhouse to Threaten Qualcomm and Intel

Re:How Apple Built a Chip Powerhouse to Threaten Qualcomm an... by mrep on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @10:30PM (#16271062)

> All the other manufacturers have this problem, they just don't attempt to detect battery power fluctuations and mitigate it with throttling. They just eat the system crashes.

Really, because I have not heard of any other manufacturer with this problem?

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Re:How Apple Built a Chip Powerhouse to Threaten Qualcomm an... by abritinthebay on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @01:18AM (#16271893)

Then you have not looked into it. Android forums have been filled with complaints over “random crashes” when doing something CPU heavy for years.

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Re:How Apple Built a Chip Powerhouse to Threaten Qualcomm an... by mrep on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @03:26AM (#16272380)

Care to cite any sources as I'm only coming up evidence that they don't (the last one is a forum like you said and the reasoning explained there is due to bloat)

https://mashable.com/2018/01/04/apple-slowing-down-iphones-w...

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/12/29/16829512/...

https://www.engadget.com/2017/12/29/samsung-lg-claim-older-p...

https://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-note-8/8589...

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Re:How Apple Built a Chip Powerhouse to Threaten Qualcomm an... by abritinthebay on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @07:23AM (#16273312)

Source: basic understanding of how batteries & CPUs work while following tech forums for decades.

This isn’t considered controversial

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