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Apple's 7nm A12 chip could be the best feature in the 2018 iPhones

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Re: Apple's 7nm A12 chip could be the best feature in the 2018 iPhones

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Post by whichdan »

roryisok wrote: post #5
dman wrote: post #2

I hope at some point these chips make their way into an Apple laptop.

I think its only a matter of time before apple unveils what's basically high spec clamshell iPad pro and stops making new macbooks.

So a 12" MacBook with a touchscreen?

Re: Apple's 7nm A12 chip could be the best feature in the 2018 iPhones

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Post by jbob2000 »

rbanffy wrote: post #12
jbob2000 wrote: post #3

Dont' waste your time, this article is rife with speculation, all based off of a rumor that the new chip will be 7nm.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-23/apple-par...

A much more informative article, thank you for sharing!

Re: Apple's 7nm A12 chip could be the best feature in the 2018 iPhones

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Post by rbanffy »

zitterbewegung wrote: post #4
dman wrote: post #2

I hope at some point these chips make their way into an Apple laptop.

To be honest I would think a A12X would be better with a few extra GPU cores.

As we are more and more able to make use of all the parallelism of our hardware from our code, that's more or less unavoidable.

Re: Apple's 7nm A12 chip could be the best feature in the 2018 iPhones

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Post by monocasa »

jimmy1 wrote: post #9
roryisok wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think its only a matter of time before apple unveils what's basically high spec clamshell iPad pro and stops making new macbooks.

I disagree, I think they are doing a full about-face with these latest generation of garbage MBPs and I am hopeful for the refreshes. A lesson many will learn the hard way, eventually, is you don't scorn your power users because they are an endless source of evangelism and free marketing for your product.

Also, they're literally the developers for the mobile platform. iOS has a very long way to go before you can develop on it.

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Post by jandrese »

I wish Apple would make a sort of Raspberry Pi like board with an A series chip, ethernet, HDMI, GPIO, SD Card, etc... for $50-$100 that runs Linux.

I would also like a flying unicorn.

Seriously, a high power SBC at a reasonable price point would be insanely useful for projects like portable MAME cabinets, video transcoders, scene displays, etc... I love the Pi but it's so old tech, especially the video cores, that it's annoyingly limited for some applications. Worse, the competitors with faster cpus often have worse video acceleration support, making them worse for this than the underpowered Pi.

Re: Apple's 7nm A12 chip could be the best feature in the 2018 iPhones

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Post by lcfcjs »

roryisok wrote: post #5
dman wrote: post #2

I hope at some point these chips make their way into an Apple laptop.

I think its only a matter of time before apple unveils what's basically high spec clamshell iPad pro and stops making new macbooks.

You are obviously not a developer. Writing code on an iPad is just never going to work.

Re: Apple's 7nm A12 chip could be the best feature in the 2018 iPhones

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Post by ingenieroariel »

jandrese wrote: post #17

I wish Apple would make a sort of Raspberry Pi like board with an A series chip, ethernet, HDMI, GPIO, SD Card, etc... for $50-$100 that runs Linux. I would also like a flying unicorn. Seriously, a high power SBC at a reasonable price point would be insanely useful for projects like portable MAME cabinets, video transcoders, scene displays, etc... I love the Pi but it's so old tech, especially the video cores, that i…

Have you looked at raspberry pi clones built around FPGAs?
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