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> it's interesting to see how good apple is in designing their custom Arm processors. ooh, probably because apple acquired a company called pa-semi (300m iirc) which had a bunch of cpu dudes doing power-efficient chips for quite a while...
Looking online about this company. Apple has acquired pa-semi for $278m in 2008 which translated in having the fasted arm processor by a wide margin a decade later, definitely paid out very well.
I wanna see a realistic benchmark that compares it against intel's x86 i"X" (6th, 7th, 8th gen) to decide if it can be called a laptop class processor in first place... BTW, it's interesting to see how good apple is in designing their custom Arm processors.
> it's interesting to see how good apple is in designing their custom Arm processors. ooh, probably because apple acquired a company called pa-semi (300m iirc) which had a bunch of cpu dudes doing power-efficient chips for quite a while...
Also principal designers of the DEC Alpha and the StrongARM, FWIW.
They hired some of the best and most experienced in the business. You get what you pay for.
So the newest Cortex will roughly match the 2016 Apple A10 CPU? No wonder so many android tablets are painfully slow...
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> it's interesting to see how good apple is in designing their custom Arm processors. ooh, probably because apple acquired a company called pa-semi (300m iirc) which had a bunch of cpu dudes doing power-efficient chips for quite a while...
The company employed a 150-person engineering team which included people who had previously worked on processors like Itanium, Opteron and UltraSPARC. Also principal designers of the DEC Alpha and the StrongARM, FWIW. They hired some of the best and most experienced in the business. You get what you pay for.
So the newest Cortex will roughly match the 2016 Apple A10 CPU? No wonder so many android tablets are painfully slow...
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I think apple had this huge lead when they introduced x64 out of the blue. Over time other players will catch up, I guess. But yeah, apple's engineering team have been doing an excellent job. I'm excited about google's inclusion though. They already make great tpu's.
Pretty sure you meant ARM64 not x86 :) But yeah, the SoC in the iPhone 5S was crazy fast at the time, plus they have other advantages like Secure Enclave, and a smartwatch with ACTUAL all day battery life. I owned a Sony phone with a Snapdragon 810, which was Qualcomm's first high-end 64-bit chip... and it overheated at the drop of a hat. The phone was more or less unusable in Australian summer. Everything I read at…
Any idea if it would be affected by Spectre?
[1] https://developer.arm.com/support/arm-security-updates/specu...
So the newest Cortex will roughly match the 2016 Apple A10 CPU? No wonder so many android tablets are painfully slow...
the problem is that many low-end and middle-end android tablets are based on Cortex A53 which is a slow in-order CPU (but very power efficient).... The Flash storage performance is also very important for user experience and is often left behind in reviews