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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by fuzzy2 on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @03:32AM (#25056579)
Isn’t that just the ARM vs x86 difference? They’re completely different architectures, each with their own benefits and drawbacks.
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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by als0 on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @04:14AM (#25056827)
With the size of modern chips the instruction set has very little to do with an overall chip design. Most of it is a balancing act between power, performance and area for things like caches, controllers, optimizations, accelerators and so on. Then there are also factors like verification complexity and the fab technology you are choosing.
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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by fauigerzigerk on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @04:14AM (#25056826)
I would have thought so too, but why are there no ARM based competitors coming out with similar numbers? Or are there?
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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by phamilton on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @10:39AM (#25059218)
Graviton2 I expect would stack up nicely.
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