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Re:Will young Americans want to work in semiconductor manufa... by Aunche on Friday September 02, 2022 @08:14PM (#32697223)
Is the M1's design really that technically impressive? The product itself is revolutionary, but my impression was that its main technical advantages is that ARM is more efficient and they had a monopoly on TSMC's 5 nm process.

I think general mismanagement explains Intel's decline more than money or working conditions. TSMC pays embarrassing low, which is why a lot of engineers end up being poached by China.

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Re:Will young Americans want to work in semiconductor manufa... by astrange on Friday September 02, 2022 @11:32PM (#32698392)
> ARM is more efficient

This is backwards; M1 is not merely an implementation of an efficient ISA, Apple sponsored the design of the ISA in order to create M1 with it. That's why ARMv8 is significantly different from v7.

ISA doesn't matter that much though and it is well designed besides that.

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