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Re:Apple introduces M4 chip by onlyrealcuzzo on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @10:51AM (#40286246)
On one hand, it's crazy. On the other hand, it's pretty typical for the industry.

Average performance per watt doubling time is 2.6 years: https://newsroom.arm.com/blog/performance-per-watt#:~:text=T....

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Re:Apple introduces M4 chip by praseodym on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @10:56AM (#40286330)
M2 was launched in June 2022 [1] so a little under 2 years ago. Apple is a bit ahead of that 2.6 years, but not by much.

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/06/apple-unveils-m2-with...

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Re:Apple introduces M4 chip by halgir on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @12:56PM (#40288284)
If they maintain that pace, it will start compounding incredibly quickly. If we round to 2 years vs 2.5 years, after just a decade you're an entire doubling ahead.
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Re:Apple introduces M4 chip by luyu_wu on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @02:03PM (#40289280)
Note that performance per watt is 2x higher at both chips peak performance. This is in many ways an unfair comparison for Apple to make.
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Re:Apple introduces M4 chip by faeriechangling on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @03:39PM (#40302050)
It's a shame performance per watt doesn't double every 2.6 years for modems and screens.
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Re:Apple introduces M4 chip by onlyrealcuzzo on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @11:49PM (#40305145)
Watts per pixel probably did something close for a long time for screens.

Same for Watts per bit.

There's just a lot more pixels and bits.

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