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AMD uses TSMC. Apple’s cores are still faster than AMD’s. Regardless, ARMv8 isn’t exactly RISC.
by skavi 4y ago
AMD uses TSMC. Apple’s cores are still faster than AMD’s. Regardless, ARMv8 isn’t exactly RISC.
- ajross 4y agoOne example over three decades doesn't prove much. As pointed out, in 1992 the best CPU in the world was a SuperSPARC, with the MIPS R4000 about to leapfrog it. It didn't stick. I didn't say x86 offerings were uniformly and always better than RISC ISAs. I said it was almost always better, which sort of demolishes Mashey's arguments about the inherent superiority of the ISA design. And in any case you're wrong on the facts. The M2 and Zen 3 cores are not being fabbed on the same process; AMD is still on 7nm for its CPU products vs. 5nm for Apple. Their use of 5nm is exclusively for GPUs so far.