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Apple literally had the Avengers of the chip industry working for them until the M1, which was a groundbreaking chip and still is for its unmatched performance
by retskrad 4y ago
Apple literally had the Avengers of the chip industry working for them until the M1, which was a groundbreaking chip and still is for its unmatched performance per watt.
Just like sports, a team can’t stay at the top forever. Now that Apple has lost many of their Avenger members in their chip division, they need to be humble and go back to the drawing board. AMD and Qualcomm are getting closer to their performance per watt.
The M2 showed that the M1 architecture is done. They need to build something new up from the ground up but that’s going to challenge. Let’s see if they can pull it off.
- trenchgun 4y agoWhy did they lose those key employees?
- dpflan 4y agoAdd on: who are the key employees?
- amelius 4y agoApple doesn't want to speak about them. In fact the only recent Apple employee other than Jobs or Cook that I have ever heard about is Jony Ive.
- dpflan 4y agoAre they not visible on LinkedIn? Reminds me of Gibson novels like Count Zero with top technologists as key parts of sprawling interstellar corporations requiring mercenaries to extract a researcher to basically change jobs [1.]. - [1.] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Zero https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Zero
- jlokier 4y agoSeveral key M1 designers left to start a new processor design company called Nuvia, which was exciting for a while. In some respects it didn't work out well as an independent, as it was later acquired by (absorbed into) Qualcomm, which is already a large processor design company. But if it was cash the founders wanted, they got themselves a good exit.
- runeks 4y ago> The M2 showed that the M1 architecture is done. How so?
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