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I imagine they may use a mass amount of SOCs. Keep in mind that their Laptop game plan may be to build CPUs to the Max limits of the TDP and then use their (rat
by AgloeDreams 6y ago
I imagine they may use a mass amount of SOCs. Keep in mind that their Laptop game plan may be to build CPUs to the Max limits of the TDP and then use their (rather incredible) power management system to reduce power far below Intel chips for normal use. This is the iPad Game-plan, the chip is rarely ever fully hammered. You may see a 12 core Macbook Air capable of (unsustained) desktop Ryzen-level performance but it will generally be ran as 6 low power cores and one or two high power cores, with bursts of insanity when needed. If you can pool a few of those together, it would be easy to beat Intel's server offerings.
- fomine3 6y agoUsing mass amount of SoCs effectively on a single machine isn't trivial. Even AMD go for simple solution on EPYC 7002.
- AgloeDreams 6y agoOf course it isn't, but it's very, very valuable for them. Even if they make a custom chip that is the CPU minus the SOC portions.