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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by ttul on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @11:21PM (#25066399)
TSMC’s 5nm node is exceeding everyone’s expectations.
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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by arvinsim on Thursday November 12, 2020 @02:41AM (#25067455)
On the non-Apple side, it will be interesting what AMD does with the 5nm node.
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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by andy_ppp on Thursday November 12, 2020 @03:24AM (#25067695)
Yes I’m guessing we can expect a die shrink of Zen 3 at least next year meaning 10-15% additional performance with no architectural changes. Crazy.
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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by 0-_-0 on Thursday November 12, 2020 @04:40AM (#25068151)
5nm is not design compatible with 7nm, but 6nm is, so there might be a die shrink to that.
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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by andy_ppp on Friday November 13, 2020 @02:13PM (#25086172)
Interesting! What makes the design incompatible I don’t know enough about it to know...
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