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I want to see an apple designed chip running full out (no real thermal restrictions like in iPads/iPhone/Apple TV). Those chips already compare pretty favorably
by nickpeterson 9y ago
I want to see an apple designed chip running full out (no real thermal restrictions like in iPads/iPhone/Apple TV). Those chips already compare pretty favorably to Intel, and running at 3+GHz would likely have great single threaded performance.
I actually believe we're going to see MacOS for arm and a mac mini running an arm chip, it makes too much sense for Apple not to do it.
- JohnBooty 9y agoI know what you mean, but I'm not sure that's the way forward. My understanding is that when you start really cranking up CPU speed -- let's say, with an imaginary 3.5ghz version of whatever their latest iPad Pro CPU is -- now you're just spending all your time waiting for RAM. So you need fancier and fancier speculative execution hardware in order for the CPU to have something, anything to do. You get into that game, and you wind up with as many transistors on a chip as Intel and AMD, hitting the same performance walls as Intel and AMD have been hitting for a long time. What Apple could do is just go super wide, of course. Instead of bumping up the clock speed, they could cram 16 of those iPad Pro cores into a Macbook or whatever. Which would be fun, but for most workloads, those cores will just be idle most of the time.