> Apple slaps them in grossly thermally limited form factors, where the chips can't operate anywhere close to their capability.
Checks temp of iMac, while encoding video and maxing all cores.... nope.
Saying the chips haven't enabled any sort of innovative products it's like driving down the interstate wearing goggles, err, blinders. Let's check back in four months.
What are they then? Have I missed something?
You have! The Apple Vision Pro is slated to be released by the March/April 2024. The device has only been made possible by the steady march of Apple Silicon.
That and a big battery pack.
How did it upend the personal computer world? Apple's chip developments are an amazing technological achievement, but they don't have anything innovative to put them in. Apple slaps them in grossly thermally limited form factors, where the chips can't operate anywhere close to their capability. It's kind of a silly exercise, in my opinion. At the end of the day, Apple has made the same computers, phones, and tablets for the past 10 years. I'm not sure where the innovation is.