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> Apple's chips are dramatically faster than any other kind. Any idea why? Is it because of some patent they hold?
by mwcampbell 2y ago
> Apple's chips are dramatically faster than any other kind.
Any idea why? Is it because of some patent they hold?
- ksec 2y agoNothing to do with that, they just have a head start in the right direction along with enough money to fund many iterations before it landed on Desktop or become accepted by 95% of people. Qualcomm's current Snapdragon Elite Oryon 2 on Mobile, and ARM Cortex X925 or previously known as X5 are already close to Apple A17 level performance. So this is no longer something unique to Apple. I just wish both design are more widely available. And for x86, Intel and AMD still haven't quite caught up. At least not in the next 2 years.
- mike_hearn 2y agoCombination of using the latest TSMC processes, a very wide design, very deep speculation pipelines, a weaker memory model than Intel, and lots of clever tricks of the usual sort for fast cpus, also a very high memory bandwidth. I don't think it's anything to do with patents although I'm sure they have plenty.