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A comment on Apple Orders Entire Supply of TSMC's 3nm Chips for iPhone 15 Pro and M3 Macs. Parent comment

Re:Apple Orders Entire Supply of TSMC's 3nm Chips for iPhone... by tambourine_man on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @10:53AM (#34897512)
The M-series is way faster than previous generations even in single treaded general purpose code. “Computers don’t get faster anymore” was Intel’s inability to innovate for many years, not an inevitability of physics. We will reach the end of Moore's law someday, but it’s not there yet.
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Re:Apple Orders Entire Supply of TSMC's 3nm Chips for iPhone... by dahfizz on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @12:20PM (#34899003)
Computers get faster in benchmarks. If anything, regular computer tasks like checking your email or editing a file has more latency than 5 years ago. Software bloats to fill whatever container you put it in.
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Re:Apple Orders Entire Supply of TSMC's 3nm Chips for iPhone... by tambourine_man on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @12:40PM (#34899428)
If you use the proper software, it doesn’t. Vim is still as fast as it was 40 years ago if not faster. IO is also getting a lot faster. The SSDs these days are what RAM used to be.
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Re:Apple Orders Entire Supply of TSMC's 3nm Chips for iPhone... by HPsquared on Thursday February 23, 2023 @12:13PM (#34913337)
Software gets slower faster than computers get faster.
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