4 ms·
It's a bit strange in the same year they're going to present the first laptops sporting the new ARM chip. I mean the performance increase can be declared by the
by dep_b 6y ago
It's a bit strange in the same year they're going to present the first laptops sporting the new ARM chip. I mean the performance increase can be declared by the clock increase the smaller process allows alone. So either they put all of their engineering capacity towards a blistering fast desktop / laptop CPU or they really have a problem in their SoC engineering department.
Also they reserved all of TSMC's 5nm capacity for the A14. Like that was a last ditch effort to make it _look_ faster after all?
- my123 6y agoThe upcoming Snapdragon and Exynos chips are on Samsung's 5nm process, so they should be relatively comparable. I wouldn't worry on that front. > So either they put all of their engineering capacity towards a blistering fast desktop / laptop CPU TSMC promises up to a 30% improvement in power consumption or up to 15% more performance over the current N7 node in the 5nm process. This relatively matches with Apple's claim this gen. So Apple might have put the engineering effort on desktops & laptops this time.
- simonh 6y agoTransitioning to a new node can be tricky, so in the past they have been very conservative in their changes to the design when doing so. Better to do the transition with as few new potential surprises as possible. This is also true for Qualcomm so I’d expect to see similar, mainly process node driven changes in their new chips as well.
- jkestner 6y agoAka Intel's Tick-Tock cadence of releases.