Re:Chip Design Shifts as Fundamental Laws Run Out of Steam
by TheCondor on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @10:30AM
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I’m just a few years younger than you and have had similar experiences. This is off topic, but when was the last “magical” new computer experience for you? For me, it was an M1; after seeing how good Intel had been for so long, everything that they had vanquished and then AMDs recent run, I just couldn’t see a non-x8664 part really performing outside of some IBM systems in special cases. That little m1 SoC blew me away with its consistently great performance and power use. I’m not sure it’ll be the same with the M3 and beyond. It was a taste of that old school new computer feeling though.
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Re:Chip Design Shifts as Fundamental Laws Run Out of Steam
by Arrath on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @11:28AM
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For me it was the upgrade from spinning platters to a SSD. I was giggling as I restarted my computer a few times just to watch it almost instantly get to the login screen.
Re:Chip Design Shifts as Fundamental Laws Run Out of Steam
by omikun on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @01:41PM
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The first computer I used was a Pentium Pro 233mhz and I remembered how fast things were moving every year for at least a decade before it slowed to irrelevance. The M1 was long time coming. I remember back in 2013 when the iPhone 5S came out, Anandtech showed how it matched Atom's perf in a few web benchmarks at much lower power. Combined that with mw level idle power, it was obvious they would be very competitive in the pc space. That was also the year Apple called their chip "desktop level." I remember thinking back then how amazing I could FaceTime for hours on a passively cooled phone but yet can barely Skype for thirty seconds before the fan spin up on my Mac. Always thought it was the smaller screen, never made the connection it was the SoC that was the key difference.