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I think apple had this huge lead when they introduced x64 out of the blue. Over time other players will catch up, I guess. But yeah, apple's engineering team ha

I think apple had this huge lead when they introduced x64 out of the blue. Over time other players will catch up, I guess. But yeah, apple's engineering team have been doing an excellent job. I'm excited about google's inclusion though. They already make great tpu's.

ClassyJacket 8y ago
Pretty sure you meant ARM64 not x86 :) But yeah, the SoC in the iPhone 5S was crazy fast at the time, plus they have other advantages like Secure Enclave, and a smartwatch with ACTUAL all day battery life. I owned a Sony phone with a Snapdragon 810, which was Qualcomm's first high-end 64-bit chip... and it overheated at the drop of a hat. The phone was more or less unusable in Australian summer. Everything I read at the time indicated that Apple really caught the rest of the industry off guard. Even Wikipedia puts it pretty bluntly: "The first 64-bit SoCs, the Snapdragon 808 and 810, were rushed to market using generic Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A53 cores and suffered from overheating problems and throttling, particularly the 810, which led Samsung to stop using Snapdragon for its Galaxy S6 flagship phone."
- zamadatix 8y ago
  Apple is so ridiculously ahead in the ARM chip market... imagine if they'd sell to 3rd parties and the single thread performance on these laptops was 2x. Makes me wonder if they are about to make the same move on the lower speed MacBooks.
  - atomicnumber1 8y ago
    They already have a arm chipset working as controller in the latest iMac. I'm sure their end goal would be to get rid of intel as soon as they can. Using intel chipset gives them uncertainty. It leaves control out of their hand.
- atomicnumber1 8y ago
  Yes exactly.