Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs

Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by MR4D on Monday June 22, 2020 @05:43PM (#23607151)

Yes. I saw that there were already other responses to your comment, but I'd like to add my own, quoted from the conclusion of the article:

"But the biggest surprises and largest performance increases were to be found in the A13's GPU. Where the new chip really shines and exceeds Apple’s own marketing claims is in the sustained performance and efficiency of the new GPU. Particularly the iPhone 11 Pro models were able to showcase much improved long-term performance results, all while keeping thermals in check. The short version of it is that Apple has been able to knock it out of the park, delivering performance increases that we hadn’t expected in what's essentially a mid-generation refresh on the chip manufacturing side of matters."

One of the key phrases is "...Apple has been able to knock it out of the park..."

The rest of the article is pretty clear - Apple gets it, and beats their competitors pretty soundly.

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by imtringued on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @06:21AM (#23612008)

Apple is definitively competent at chip design but the end result won't be leagues ahead. They might be something like 10% ahead in terms of IPC and another 10-20% just because they get early access to 5nm compared to whatever "ancient" process Intel is using.

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by MR4D on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @02:37PM (#23618275)

Everyone seems to think about cost and speed all the time.

I think that's only part of the story, which also needs to include the ability to add features and control the entire feature set across chips on all of their devices.

Encryption, ML, graphics, power management, security, etc. are all things that Apple can now add or remove as needed.

The level of optimization they can do is now well beyond just speed and price.

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by thejynxed on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @04:36AM (#23625601)

Right now absolutely everyone else is ahead of Intel in the NM race, with some currently shipping chips two process nodes ahead and several announced chips going so far as being twice as small as Intel's current process node. This is partially why AMD has been able to offer laptop CPUs that rival Intel's desktop offerings for less cost.

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