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Despite the M1 moniker, Apple has been doing in-house silicon for about 7 generations now - they started with A7 iirc, and M1 is part of the A14 generation, and
by paulmd 4y ago
Despite the M1 moniker, Apple has been doing in-house silicon for about 7 generations now - they started with A7 iirc, and M1 is part of the A14 generation, and M2 is part of the A15 generation. M1 is what would have traditionally been called an "A14X", meaning wider GPU than the phone-sized SOC. So there are basically 8 generations of YoY comparisons to make.
M2 is not a particularly large jump as these generations go, but it's on the same node and it's actually decent in that context.
- bee_rider 4y agoSure, but since they've moved into an entirely different class of device, I don't think the A<n> series establishes a very useful baseline. I mean, scaling the phone/tablet type chip up to laptop/desktop class must have made them bump into some bottlenecks that previously looked infinitely wide. Depending on how difficult those bottlenecks are to clear, we could see some years with quick progress, some years with not so much.