Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro

Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by valuearb on Thursday November 12, 2020 @01:28AM (#25067064)

AMD on it’s current hot steak has gotten its gross profit margins to 43%, which would make the cost to manufacture a $300 part around $171.

Two and a half times higher cost to build a slower, more power hungry CPU is not actually very similar.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by mahkeiro on Thursday November 12, 2020 @02:02AM (#25067241)

Yeah using the gross margin of the whole company and applying it to a single product is going to provide a reliable figure...

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by valuearb on Thursday November 12, 2020 @12:47PM (#25072445)

It’s how companies price their products. Is it perfect? No, but that’s why I used the word “around”.

You can argue that this particular Ryzen has a higher gross margin, say 50%, and lower ASP than $300, but that only gets your cost down to what, $140? And with RAM costing extra.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by dannyw on Thursday November 12, 2020 @02:30AM (#25067395)

how much of the $300 goes to the retailer? how much goes to the distributor?

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by ant6n on Thursday November 12, 2020 @03:48AM (#25067804)

How much goes to R&D?

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by btgeekboy on Thursday November 12, 2020 @02:38AM (#25067442)

Not to mention I believe the RAM is included on the M1 SOC.

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