Re:Silicon Lottery store closing
by Jensson on Friday October 01, 2021 @05:21AM
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> All this makes the Apple M1 chip look amazing, for single core loads it matches the best AMD and Intel have to offer.
M1 uses the next gen 5nm fab tech, it isn't fair to compare it to the others 7nm or 11nm. Apple bought up all next gen fab time to make M1, so right now you can only get it via Apple and that is the reason M1 is so superior. But this isn't thanks to Apple, AMD will get the same performance in their low power chips once they also get 5nm fab time.
But I assume that Apples strategy here is to always buy up the next gen fab time since they can sell their components at a significant markup in their phones. So that is the future of hardware, we will never get the latest gen hardware again without software lockin.
M1 uses the next gen 5nm fab tech, it isn't fair to compare it to the others 7nm or 11nm. Apple bought up all next gen fab time to make M1, so right now you can only get it via Apple and that is the reason M1 is so superior. But this isn't thanks to Apple, AMD will get the same performance in their low power chips once they also get 5nm fab time.
But I assume that Apples strategy here is to always buy up the next gen fab time since they can sell their components at a significant markup in their phones. So that is the future of hardware, we will never get the latest gen hardware again without software lockin.