MacBook Pro M1X benchmarks have leaked

Re:MacBook Pro M1X benchmarks have leaked by imtringued on Monday February 22, 2021 @08:15AM (#26224120)

Intel should be scared of its own failures. Apple is merely a competitor that didn't fall asleep.

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Re:MacBook Pro M1X benchmarks have leaked by ubermonkey on Monday February 22, 2021 @09:10AM (#26224687)

It's kind of amazing how often the folks that pull ahead in a market are the folks that didn't fall asleep.

For example: DOS wasn't technically better than anything else; it was just the one that was being aggressive about adoption.

Or the fact that Sony was really in a position to OWN portable music in perpetuity, but went to sleep. Apple wasn't asleep, and didn't have outsized anxiety about digital music, so the iPod entered a market without a dominant "Digital Walkman".

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Re:MacBook Pro M1X benchmarks have leaked by toyg on Monday February 22, 2021 @08:24AM (#26224192)

Harsh. Maybe more like “a competitor who made enough money elsewhere to get into the CPU fight”. Barriers to entry in that market are gargantuan, only a very selected few companies on the planet can afford to make an enemy out of Intel.

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Re:MacBook Pro M1X benchmarks have leaked by rbanffy on Monday February 22, 2021 @08:32AM (#26224275)

Apple has been on the CPU fight for years now - It's just that Intel, like IBM before them, couldn't provide a CPU with the performance/watt they wanted for their macOS lineup.

The developer preview Minis they sold with an iPad Pro CPU were already well past midrange Intel desktop chips.

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Re:MacBook Pro M1X benchmarks have leaked by jp555 on Monday February 22, 2021 @08:43AM (#26224387)

Also Apple didn't have to do ~80% of what Intel has to do - you know, the actual building of chip fabs as well as chip design.

"merely" LOL.

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Re:MacBook Pro M1X benchmarks have leaked by gumby on Monday February 22, 2021 @10:48AM (#26225835)

Intel doesn’t have to build its own fabs. AMD sold its off and is doing fine. Fabless + foundry is an excellent model that lets each side concentrate on its strengths, that works for most companies.

Intel started in an era when you did have to build your own fab. More importantly, even as others were going fabless, Intel continued to use its superiority in manufacturing as an additional advantage over their competition, who had to drop out of the fab business, and against the merchant foundries too.

But now Intel has fallen behind on both sides of the divide. I’m not sure how they will dig out.

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Re:MacBook Pro M1X benchmarks have leaked by jp555 on Monday March 01, 2021 @09:34AM (#26303094)

Apple doesn't have to build it's own CPU, but often vertical integration gives one a significant advantage.

TSMC is slave to Dutch ASML, whos is the only one on the planet who can make the EUV lithography technology TSMC uses to make the latest chips.

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Re:MacBook Pro M1X benchmarks have leaked by ricardobayes on Monday February 22, 2021 @09:36AM (#26224985)

Who manufactures them for Apple?

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Re:MacBook Pro M1X benchmarks have leaked by mvanaltvorst on Monday February 22, 2021 @09:46AM (#26225087)

TSMC

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Re:MacBook Pro M1X benchmarks have leaked by coldtea on Monday February 22, 2021 @10:04AM (#26225312)

Wouldn't that make Apple even smarter and more efficient?

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