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Qualcomm's Oryon core: A long time in the making

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Re: Qualcomm's Oryon core: A long time in the making

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> Apple has lost some or many of their chip design talent. Not All or Most. Did you read this somewhere? I tried to Google for it, but I cannot find anything. Or do you have an inside source? The last that I knew/read, Johny Srouji was the key senior executive in the Apple CPU division. It looks like they continue to expand his R&D labs in Israel (according to a Wiki source). Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johny_…

It is no secret that some of the chip design team left over the years. From the Nuvia / Qualcomm Oryon team to a few RISC-V CPU design IP companies has many ex-Apple design team. And this is specific to CPU only. There are many other moving parts in the whole SoC design. Which yes Apple is also expanding. Basically some media make a big deal out of some people left the Apple's CPU design.

Like I said, I could not find any of your "some media". And what makes you think that Apple cannot attract (buy) replacement talent?

Re: Qualcomm's Oryon core: A long time in the making

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It's not just a benchmark flex. I have been using Linux since 1992, for many or most of those years on both desktop and server. I am currently more productive while on an Apple Silicon Mac. I would venture to guess that for most people, they would be more productive on a Mac or an iPad versus Linux. Pedantry: To my knowledge, there was no M3 iPad.

The question from me was whether the M4 makes iPad users more productive vs the M3 iPad or whatever the last chip was, not if the iPad itself make you more productive than Linux or window s. And since people keep bringing up the M4 as the yardstick in discussions on generic X86 and Qualcomm chips, then my productivity metric for comparison was also meant in a global generic way, as in the general purpose compute chip…

> As long as the most cutting edge MX chips are restricted to running only Apple approved AppStore apps

Except that they're not. You can install apps from the open web or run Asahi Linux on Apple's machines.

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