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A nice bump in specs, but nothing groundbreaking like the initial ship. Somewhat disappointed that AV1 isn't supported in hardware, and Apple's continued push w
by jjcm 4y ago
A nice bump in specs, but nothing groundbreaking like the initial ship. Somewhat disappointed that AV1 isn't supported in hardware, and Apple's continued push with HEVC gives me doubts they'll support the codec in the future.
- kirbyfan64sos 4y ago> Somewhat disappointed that AV1 isn't supported in hardware Given that the M2 is based on the A15, which doesn't have AV1, this was kind of expected. I'd imagine that, due to their general cycle, AV1 would come to iPhones first if/when it arrives.
- simonh 4y agoThey have a balancing act to perform. It will take time to engineer the high end versions of M2 and they can’t afford to eclipse the current high end M1 machines. Anyway it seems likely the engineering tradeoffs made in the overall M* architecture will be with us for several years to come at least, and the first few generations will be incremental improvements.
- barkingcat 4y agothe Apple chip development progression is well known - all apple M chips come from the corresponding iPhone chip that came before. It means that the M3 will follow from the next iPhone so you can easily tell what codecs will come. no need to be disappointed, you can just look to the iphone for the next macbook.
- Shikadi 4y agoThere are like two Apple M chips, is that something official or internally leaked?
- jeroenhd 4y agoApple has bought heavily into the HEVC ecosystem so they'll have to support it for at least a few generations just to make sure their hardware performs well combined with their previously released phones. And if you're already dumping money into the HEVC patent sinkhole, why bother also implementing a free codec?