The 13-Inch MacBook Air

Re:The 13-Inch MacBook Air by philistine on Saturday July 16, 2022 @04:37PM (#32121741)

The ARM chip manufacturers have been competing with Apple since 2010. In the 18 months since Apple unveiled its first ARM computers, nothing has been released that is a serious response. Which tells you everything you need to know; the fact Apple puts its chips in a different chassis has changed nothing for those companies.

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Re:The 13-Inch MacBook Air by benreesman on Saturday July 16, 2022 @04:45PM (#32121794)

Apple has to your point differentiated in micro architecture.

Having the whole slab of TSMC’s best new process locked-in until the heat death of the universe doesn’t hurt.

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Re:The 13-Inch MacBook Air by danieldk on Sunday July 17, 2022 @03:07AM (#32125043)

Have you seen how far Qualcomm/Samsung are behind?

Samsung S22 Ultra (2022): GeekBench 5 single core: 934, multi-core: 2925

iPhone 13 (2022): GeekBench 5 single core: 1706, multi-core: 4661

That's not just TSMC's best process node. Oh, and the CPU of the S22 Ultra is made on Samsung's 4nm process.

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Re:The 13-Inch MacBook Air by benreesman on Sunday July 17, 2022 @05:32AM (#32125505)

Hey I know the PA Semi people are ballers. 5-wide dispatch on the M1? Ambitious and they pulled it off. Hot shit.

Having the best transistors always doesnt hurt.

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