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Re:Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in perfor... by fhn on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @11:01AM (#49435379)
Jesus, why does it matter? Don't you still have your name since birth? How lame!
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Re:Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in perfor... by coro_1 on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @11:44AM (#49436061)
They keep the legacy processing of content around. But the originating teams and founders are long gone.
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Re:Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in perfor... by inigyou on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @12:40PM (#49436865)
Because the naming convention was used for chips based on Skylake microarchitecture (but with other differences such as process node). Not changing the name implies they've either changed the naming convention (why?) or they haven't improved the microarchitecture since 2012.
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Re:Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in perfor... by officeplant on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @03:57PM (#49439754)
>they haven't improved the microarchitecture since 2012.

No, but they did beat 14nm like a dead horse for almost a decade. So you're not that far off.

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