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Intel is making silicon for an entire industry. The "white box" industry flourished by assembling a box of parts and shipped them out the door with no other val
by BooneJS 6y ago
Intel is making silicon for an entire industry. The "white box" industry flourished by assembling a box of parts and shipped them out the door with no other value added. Intel hyperthreading is ancient at this point, but for years Linux scheduler would schedule work on hyper threads before real cores. Apple is aggressive on software which requires them to be aggressive on hardware.
- amluto 6y agoI don’t really buy this. Apple, in general, seems to be shockingly bad at software. They have a design aesthetic, they’re pretty good at ideas, and they are able to execute. They accumulate plenty of technical debt, though, and they are bad at maintaining their software portfolio. Intel throws a lot of money at software, much of it open source, and this has played out fairly well for them. AMD is far, far behind in this regard. I fully expect a cutting edge implementation of macOS on ARM, and I fully expect it to languish post release.
- BooneJS 6y agoI think “shockingly bad” is a bit dramatic. OpenCL, Metal, and Grand Central Dispatch are all technologies Apple created to help developers take advantage of the hardware Apple ships. I think a fair criticism would be the noise created by developers about the quantity and average age of bugs in their APIs. In 2015, 10% of Intel’s engineers were software. I don’t know how that’s changed in recent years.
- attractivechaos 6y agoApple also played an important role in the development of LLVM and WebKit.
- mamp 6y agoThe previous head of Windows would disagree with you: https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/apples-relentless-strategy-and-execution-7544a76aa26 https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/apples-relentless-stra...