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Building a search engine is mundane compared to developing CPUs. It is a matter of brute work basically, an army of programmers. CPU design is a lot more sophis

Building a search engine is mundane compared to developing CPUs. It is a matter of brute work basically, an army of programmers. CPU design is a lot more sophisticated.

omegalulw 5y ago
Not really. The vast majority of CPU design is just logic in Verilog/VHDL, similar to software.
sangnoir 5y ago
> Building a search engine is mundane compared to developing CPUs Not for Apple - they have hardware excellence in their DNA, but the web and internet services aren't a core competency (yet?). They have made huge strides from the disaster that was MobileMe, but they are nowhere close to where the Bing or Google search teams are.
- wedn3sday 5y ago
  > hardware excellence in their DNA Yes, thats why my $4000 macbook pro keyboard inserts double keys strokes on 50% of key presses. The excellence must all be in the magic touchbar that periodically stops working so I cant even use vim because the ESC key is on a broken touch screen.
  - sangnoir 5y ago
    ...and that's their wheelhouse. Now imagine how much of a shitshow MobileMe really was.