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The pace at which apple is pumping out new silicon is astounding. It’s hard to imagine anyone competing with them pound for pound, especially in the flops per w
by josh2600 5y ago
The pace at which apple is pumping out new silicon is astounding. It’s hard to imagine anyone competing with them pound for pound, especially in the flops per watt game. I still can’t get over the fanless MacBook pros and the battery life.
I actually hope somebody is challenged enough by this to really push for competition as this level of performance asymmetry will ultimately result in further pricing asymmetry as competition breaks down.
- curiousgal 5y ago> The pace at which apple is pumping out new silicon is astounding It is even more astounding when you look at the utter shitshow that Google's Tensor has been!
- kovek 5y agoDo you mean the TPU in pixel 6? Can you link some article about the shitshow?
- curiousgal 5y agoWell they broke every update for the phones running that ship. The latest debacle was earlier this week as the Android 12L update was delayed for those models.
- Toutouxc 5y ago> can’t get over the fanless MacBook pros and the battery life Only the M1 Air is truly fanless, the Pros do have fans, they're just silent most of the time.
- alphabettsy 5y agoI thought my fans didn’t work for the first month or so. Months in and they’re never audible. The silence, temp and battery make it worth the upgrade over my 16” i9 MBP.
- ojbyrne 5y agoI might be wrong, but from what I can tell, the current MacBook Pros all have fans. Though judging by my experience with a 16" (2 days) they never seem to come on.
- drexlspivey 5y agoIt’s all fun and games until Taiwan is invaded, what then? Back to Intel chips?
- InitialLastName 5y agoApple doesn't seem to mind doing manufacturing in the PRC, so presumably they just have to hope the TSMC facilities are insufficiently mined to eliminate the IP during the invasion.
- kilroy123 5y agoYeah it's scary. I fear Taiwan is becoming very important to the US national security wise.
- theshrike79 5y agoI'm kinda hoping that the global reaction to Russia's fuckeroo in Ukraine is forcing China to rethink annexing Taiwan. Or at the very least they're doing some serious re-planning to withstand the Weapon of Mass Economic Destruction we levelled on Russia.
- Tade0 5y ago> I still can’t get over the fanless MacBook pros and the battery life. The Lenovo X13s reportedly offers even more battery life at around 70% the multicore performance(based on demo device score) and is fanless as well. Still doesn't beat the M1, but comparing the TDPs of M1 and Qualcomm's 8cx gen 3 in the X13s, it appears that it's TSMC's 5nm node that's doing all the magic. Personally I'm happy that we're getting proper fanless laptops now - I hate moving parts in mobile devices, because they tend to fail first.
- krrrh 5y agoIt's up to Microsoft to deliver something as smooth as Rosetta 2 though. I wonder if anyone with experience running a windows ARM laptop for dev can comment on this.
- ksec 5y ago>at around 70% the multicore performance But at around 60% of single core performance. That is basically half the speed.