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> Apple's only achievement here was to make a deal with TSMC So Microsoft could just fly to Taiwan, hand over a few billion and magically they have an M1 chip.
by threeseed 6y ago
> Apple's only achievement here was to make a deal with TSMC
So Microsoft could just fly to Taiwan, hand over a few billion and magically they have an M1 chip.
I wish we could all live in your delusional fantasy world because life sounds easy there.
- janmo 6y agoMy point here is not to deny the achievement of creating your own chip design, but rather demystify how the M1 achieves its performance, and I believe it has mainly to do with TSMC's 5nm technology and the huge number of transistors. If you look up here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count You'll see that the M1 is the first CPU/GPU (for computers) to use 5nm and one of the biggest by transistor count. Considering those facts I think it is very unfair to claim that the M1 is faster only because of some Apple magic. The Ryzen used in this test is also made by TSMC but using a 7nm process. According to TSMC moving from 7nm to 5nm means 84% more transistors for the same chip size with a 15% speed improvement or a 30% lower power consumption.