Why the M2 is more advanced that it seemed

Re:Why the M2 is more advanced that it seemed by aurareturn on Monday January 15, 2024 @11:41PM (#39009587)

The iPhone is the most profitable product in the world. It gets massive resources to design a new SoC every single year. That resource spills over to the M series which is just based on whatever the A series does that year.

AMD does not have that.

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Re:Why the M2 is more advanced that it seemed by ActorNightly on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @10:55AM (#39014754)

And yet, despite the advantages if all the Apple silicon, its not being used to run the backbone of the web, while AMD and Intel are. Making something work well in general purpose is just as "advanced" as making something super optimized.

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Re:Why the M2 is more advanced that it seemed by aurareturn on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @08:39PM (#39021986)

Apple Silicon isn't designed to be server chips. The M1 team thought it was a good idea but management did not want to do it. So some of the team broke off and started Nuvia to design ARM chips for servers. Qualcomm acquired Nuvia and that became the Qualcomm Oryon SoCs.

Anyways, ARM chips are being used for the backbone of the internet. They're called Amazon Graviton chips. Ampere Computing also has ARM server chips. So do many Chinese hyperscalers.

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