Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model
by sib on Friday April 23, 2021 @01:31PM
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Many years ago Intel got sued for using code names that were things like "Hendrix" so they started using code names that were geographic features that could not be "owned" by others...
Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model
by thu2111 on Saturday April 24, 2021 @05:46AM
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They are not real lakes, as far as I know. They might have been once but Skylake and Ice Lake are just made up.
Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model
by k1t on Friday April 23, 2021 @10:42AM
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They are code names.
Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model
by pjmlp on Saturday April 24, 2021 @03:05AM
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Thing is, unless one is doing AAA games, surviving Android, Rust or C++ builds, or trying to see how much Docker instances it is capable to stuff into the machine, any 10 years old computer will do let alone a randomly chosen one at the computer store down the street.
Even ARM, if it wants to displace Intel, it will be selling cloud pizza boxes or phones to replace those that get stolen/broken.
- At one point everyone upgraded their PC every few years anyway.
- Just having Intel on the box was sufficiently impressive to make the sale.
Now they really need to push their latest CPUs as the latest and greatest.
I like the Lake names but I've never understood from a marketing perspective (what have chips got to do with lakes - were they designed near these lakes?) they feel more like code names that accidentally got leaked.