Apple is so ridiculously ahead in the ARM chip market... imagine if they'd sell to 3rd parties and the single thread performance on these laptops was 2x. Makes me wonder if they are about to make the same move on the lower speed MacBooks.
Re:Arm unveils 7nm Cortex-A76 CPU
by atomicnumber1 on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @10:24PM
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They already have a arm chipset working as controller in the latest iMac. I'm sure their end goal would be to get rid of intel as soon as they can. Using intel chipset gives them uncertainty. It leaves control out of their hand.
Re:Arm unveils 7nm Cortex-A76 CPU
by atomicnumber1 on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @10:22PM
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Yes exactly.
But yeah, the SoC in the iPhone 5S was crazy fast at the time, plus they have other advantages like Secure Enclave, and a smartwatch with ACTUAL all day battery life. I owned a Sony phone with a Snapdragon 810, which was Qualcomm's first high-end 64-bit chip... and it overheated at the drop of a hat. The phone was more or less unusable in Australian summer. Everything I read at the time indicated that Apple really caught the rest of the industry off guard.
Even Wikipedia puts it pretty bluntly:
"The first 64-bit SoCs, the Snapdragon 808 and 810, were rushed to market using generic Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A53 cores and suffered from overheating problems and throttling, particularly the 810, which led Samsung to stop using Snapdragon for its Galaxy S6 flagship phone."