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I'm not a fan of Apple's, but people pinning their hopes and dreams of a real high performance ARM competitor on Qualcomm making fast chips seems like a bad pla
by DannyBee 3y ago
I'm not a fan of Apple's, but people pinning their hopes and dreams of a real high performance ARM competitor on Qualcomm making fast chips seems like a bad plan.
They have consistently under-delivered on chip performance, and have no issue weaseling benchmark numbers to sell them, leaving consumers highly unhappy once they buy the thing.
They also make Apple look like open source zealots when it comes to openness.
- kalleboo 3y ago2 years ago Qualcomm acquired Nuvia, which was founded by chip people who left Apple. That's why people have more hope now than in the past, these are supposed to be the first chips developed by the new team.
- musicale 3y agoI can't imagine Apple ever rewarding its silicon designers enough to keep them from jumping to a more lucrative arrangement, possibly with more autonomy as well (in this case founding a company and being acquired by Qualcomm.) Which I guess is good for the industry as a whole.
- QuarterReptile 3y agoQualcomm has not been consistent. They were, but the most recent generation has been a jump back into relevance.