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TSMC tech helps a lot, but is not exclusive to Apple. A relatively modern and sensible 64-bit ARM architecture helps too, but on top of that Apple seems to be r
by pornel 4y ago
TSMC tech helps a lot, but is not exclusive to Apple. A relatively modern and sensible 64-bit ARM architecture helps too, but on top of that Apple seems to be really good at designing the chips.
OTOH Qualcomm is constantly lagging behind Apple, promising that next year they will be almost as fast as a previous-gen Apple chip. The most generous explanation I've heard is that Qualcomm is specializing in quantity over quality, and focuses on making CPUs cheap, rather than fast.
- yyyk 4y agoActually, TSMC reserves the lowest node size to Apple (I don't recall for how long their deal will last). AMD's processors are about equivalent despite being on a larger node - so Apple actually didn't do a great job, but a lower node size is a lower node. That's good enough for users who (correctly) don't care about the why but just want to use their computer.