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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by ec109685 on Monday June 22, 2020 @11:49PM (#23609723)
Why is it very likely ahead of Apple? Apple has been doing the dedicated low power core approach for a while.
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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by sudosysgen on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @10:54PM (#23623489)
Because AMD has a 4 core low power processor with multiple times the memory bandwidth and multiple times the I/O and greater performance per core at the same power draw as Apple's 2 core processor with about a tenth of the I/O and a third the memory bandwidth.
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