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While I'm not on the Apple train, I love how they are pushing AMD, Intel and NVidia out of complacency. No more of these little tiny incremental improvements t
by xedrac 5y ago
While I'm not on the Apple train, I love how they are pushing AMD, Intel and NVidia out of complacency. No more of these little tiny incremental improvements to milk the industry. Bring your BEST to the table or get left behind!
- olliej 5y agoI’m find the slow drip of M1 extensions to be kind of ehn - like the tick part of the old intel cycle, only in this case it’s literally just gluing more of the same cores together (obviously work is involved, but not at the level of an architecture rev) (edit: calm down people, I recognize it's impressive, but it's just not as fun an announcement as an architecture rev, which I was hoping for after a year :D )
- teilo 5y agoIt's literally not.
- outworlder 5y agoIf 'gluing cores together' were this simple, every random desktop CPU would have 20 cores. That's not the case.
- Dylan16807 5y agoYou're forgetting price. If simplicity was the main concern, every random desktop CPU would have 16+ cores right now.
- jjtheblunt 5y agowhat? the unified memory growth IS an architecture rev
- jonplackett 5y agoMakes you wonder how many they can glue together. Looking at you Mac Pro
- zitterbewegung 5y agoProbably at least four together with LPDDR5X to get up to 1.5 TB and forty cores.
- amelius 5y agoLet's hope they don't also push their lock-in business models onto others.
- soheil 5y agoMilk?
- mulmen 5y agomilk verb 2 : to draw something from as if by milking: such as b : to draw or coerce profit or advantage from illicitly or to an extreme degree : exploit milk the joke for all it's worth https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/milk https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/milk
- 3836293648 5y agoNone of those three were anywhere near complacent before Apple released the M1. A few years ago, before Zen, absolutely, but now it's actually very competitive. But more competition doesn't hurt
- dartharva 5y agoThis can also backfire on consumers if the competitors decide to keep up with their user-hostile practices as well: locked-down walled gardens, zero customisability/upgradability for hardware, low repairability, low interoperability with set standards to "distinguish" their products, planned obsolescence, etc.