Re:Why is Apple's M1 chip so fast?
by hinkley on Monday November 30, 2020 @06:45PM
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They say in the article that AMD "can't" build more than 4 decoders. Is that really true? It could mean:
* we can't get a budget to sort it out
* 5 would violate information theory
* nobody wants to wrestle that pig, period
* there are 20 other options we'd rather exhaust before trying
When they've done 12 of those things and the other 8 turn out to be infeasible, will they call it quits, or will someone figure out how to either get more decoders or use them more effectively?
* we can't get a budget to sort it out
* 5 would violate information theory
* nobody wants to wrestle that pig, period
* there are 20 other options we'd rather exhaust before trying
When they've done 12 of those things and the other 8 turn out to be infeasible, will they call it quits, or will someone figure out how to either get more decoders or use them more effectively?