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It’s not just (or even) ARM. It’s Apple. For comparison, the A series chips on iOS devices are years ahead of their competitors on the Android side (largely Qu
by addicted 6y ago
It’s not just (or even) ARM. It’s Apple.
For comparison, the A series chips on iOS devices are years ahead of their competitors on the Android side (largely Qualcomm and Samsung) despite all being on ARM.
That being said, it would indeed be good to hear from someone with expertise as to what Apple has accomplished and why others haven’t been able to.
- unethical_ban 6y agoThis is true, and this is an Apple story. But I've seen this attitude on HN a while, including a comment here about AWS' Gravitron processors. It feels like ARM is similar to electric vehicles: Everyone here acts like "of course it's a better, more efficient design" but there are physical forces holding it back. That's just the feeling I get.
- _trampeltier 6y agoAs far, I understand it, the M1 is just very fast with single core, multi core not so much. I guess Intel and AMD focused on multi core performance, and did not mind much about electric power. AMD also pushed primary multi core performance, even most people never need it. We never really heard from Intel, oh what a wonderful low power notebook processor. Also test magazines and youtubers made primary performance benchmarks. Finally the said .. yeah, maybe they need a bit much power, but this processor is super fast, so still 100 points .. nobody asked for a such processor until now.