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Apple is not giving proper love to their breakthrough laptop chipset. They amazed the world with "neural net on chip" for ML, even mentioning Tensorflow explici

Apple is not giving proper love to their breakthrough laptop chipset. They amazed the world with "neural net on chip" for ML, even mentioning Tensorflow explicitly in its launch. Here's the real deal: getting anything Tensorflow related to even compile on M1 is nothing short of a miracle. Yes, Apple has a binary version (yuck) of TF you can download, but that's not good enough as many projects need specific versions and not everyone (ie OSS devs) can spend that much effort on a fringe tech. If I were Apple (ehem) I'd spend a small but meaningful budget supplying devs to projects like Docker or TF to help speedup M1 adoption. Given that the chip market is open for grabs I'd say it could give Apple a much stronger headstart with their in-house silicon strategy, even if that means helping improve products or the bottom-line for well-established corps, some of them competidors.

ogre_codes 6y ago
Give me a break. The M1 migration is less than a year old and it’s already the single best/ most successful CPU migration in my memory. Far better than Apple’s PPC -> Intel Migration and massively better than whatever half-steps Microsoft has done to port over to ARM. Apple absolutely should invest in much of what you suggest. In 6-12 months, after the platform is complete and mature enough to identify where the big problems are. Most of us understand that you exercise caution when migrating mission critical work onto a 6 month old platform. In the mean time, Apple has been hiring top Docker talent like Michael Crosby. https://www.protocol.com/apple-hires-cloud-open-source-engineers https://www.protocol.com/apple-hires-cloud-open-source-engin... It’s possible they are hiring top container developers just to improve their internal cloud infrastructure. But what kind of hardware do you expect these guys will be running? EDIT: Trimemd some repetitive stuff.

ogre_codes 6y ago

Give me a break. The M1 migration is less than a year old and it’s already the single best/ most successful CPU migration in my memory. Far better than Apple’s PPC -> Intel Migration and massively better than whatever half-steps Microsoft has done to port over to ARM. Apple absolutely should invest in much of what you suggest. In 6-12 months, after the platform is complete and mature enough to identify where the big problems are. Most of us understand that you exercise caution when migrating mission critical work onto a 6 month old platform. In the mean time, Apple has been hiring top Docker talent like Michael Crosby. https://www.protocol.com/apple-hires-cloud-open-source-engineers https://www.protocol.com/apple-hires-cloud-open-source-engin... It’s possible they are hiring top container developers just to improve their internal cloud infrastructure. But what kind of hardware do you expect these guys will be running? EDIT: Trimemd some repetitive stuff.