Helping Valve to power up Steam devices

Re:Helping Valve to power up Steam devices by makeitdouble on Friday November 21, 2025 @06:19PM (#46010254)

Apple not sharing their chips extends to Apple keeping their grip on the higher density nodes.

I wonder if it's still the case, but for a while Apple was buying the totality of TSMC's capacity for 3nm nodes, leaving the rest of the world with only 4nm+ chips to grab.

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Re:Helping Valve to power up Steam devices by StopDisinfo910 on Saturday November 22, 2025 @05:37AM (#46013702)

You don’t need to wonder. Top of the lines Snapdragon, Dimensity and Exinos SoC all use 3nm.

Amusingly, it’s the second time in two days I have this discussion here and I have noticed that a lot of people, who I think are American and using Apple phones by default, are completely unaware of what the mobile SoC landscape looks like nowadays. Apple lead doesn’t exist anymore as of this generation.

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Re:Helping Valve to power up Steam devices by l11r on Saturday November 22, 2025 @04:18PM (#46018361)

Apple still leads in raw performance. Their M5 is far ahead of basically everything in single-core performance. AFAIK it's because their architecture prioritizes IPC over frequency, and they can spend the entire silicon budget on a very large monolithic chip.

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Re:Helping Valve to power up Steam devices by 15155 on Saturday November 22, 2025 @06:51AM (#46014085)

Bitmain is quite often first on new nodes, ahead of Apple, even.

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