Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Apple CPU Gains Grind to a Halt

semianalysis.substack.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

21–30 of 46 posts

Re: Apple CPU Gains Grind to a Halt

#21

Post by nexuist »

Hamuko wrote: post #14
giuliomagnifico wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would you want an iPhone with the headphones jack?! I dropped to the floor my iPhone two times: and both are due to the headphones jack cable! I hope Apple will introduce a better codec for Bluetooth, way behind the actual AAC 256. But not the cable again…

Life is just so simple with a simple headphone jack. Say you get a loaner car and you want to listen to music from your phone. You can either connect a 3.5 mm to 3.5 mm cable between your phone and the car and start playback, or you can go into the car settings, start bluetooth pairing, wait for the device to be found, pair the devices, make sure that your address book is not shared via Bluetooth and stored in the ca…

This experience sucks because the car sucks, not the phone. I have a $15 Bluetooth to FM transmitter that you just need to select on your phone's Bluetooth page to start playback (assuming you haven't paired before). No passcode or complicated process. Is this worth not having a cable? I'd say so, actually.

Re: Apple CPU Gains Grind to a Halt

#22

Post by gumby »

giuliomagnifico wrote: post #8
bjoli wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It looks like they have hotten thicker again. I wonder if they could revolutionize the phone market YET AGAIN and re-introduce a 3.5mm jack.

Why would you want an iPhone with the headphones jack?! I dropped to the floor my iPhone two times: and both are due to the headphones jack cable! I hope Apple will introduce a better codec for Bluetooth, way behind the actual AAC 256. But not the cable again…

Apple is currently BT 5.0 across the board (phones, iPads, macs, AirPods, etc). I was hoping for 5.2 in yesterday’s hardware. (They announced hands free calling for MFI hearing aids earlier this year, which requires 5.2, so I thought the new hardware would be ready for it).

I don’t think you’ll see an improvement before next year.

Re: Apple CPU Gains Grind to a Halt

#23

Post by giuliomagnifico »

gumby wrote: post #22
giuliomagnifico wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would you want an iPhone with the headphones jack?! I dropped to the floor my iPhone two times: and both are due to the headphones jack cable! I hope Apple will introduce a better codec for Bluetooth, way behind the actual AAC 256. But not the cable again…

Apple is currently BT 5.0 across the board (phones, iPads, macs, AirPods, etc). I was hoping for 5.2 in yesterday’s hardware. (They announced hands free calling for MFI hearing aids earlier this year, which requires 5.2, so I thought the new hardware would be ready for it). I don’t think you’ll see an improvement before next year.

It’s not a revision trouble, is a codec trouble. You can have Bluetooth 8.2 but if Apple headphones and devices support only AAC256, there’s nothing much to do…

Re: Apple CPU Gains Grind to a Halt

#24

Post by tharne »

musicale wrote: post #5
wsc981 wrote: post #4

> In 2019, Nuvia was founded and later acquired by Qualcomm for $1.4B. Apple’s Chief CPU Architect, Gerard Williams, as well as over a 100 other Apple engineers left to join this firm. More recently, SemiAnalysis broke the news about Rivos Inc, a new high performance RISC V startup which includes many senior Apple engineers. The brain drain continues and impacts will be more apparent as time moves on. Seems very shoc…

> Was pay bad and didn’t Apple want to increase compensation A frustrating feature of large silicon valley companies is that if you leave the company and come back later you will typically have better compensation than if you had stayed. I could also imagine that the M1 team felt they weren't adequately rewarded after hitting a huge home run. Moreover, it's probably the best time to switch jobs, because their market…

> A frustrating feature of large silicon valley companies is that if you leave the company and come back later you will typically have better compensation than if you had stayed.

Unfortunately, that's true of almost all large companies. It's one of the dumbest polices out there, but virtually every big corporation does it.

Re: Apple CPU Gains Grind to a Halt

#25

Post by imtringued »

tharne wrote: post #24
musicale wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Was pay bad and didn’t Apple want to increase compensation A frustrating feature of large silicon valley companies is that if you leave the company and come back later you will typically have better compensation than if you had stayed. I could also imagine that the M1 team felt they weren't adequately rewarded after hitting a huge home run. Moreover, it's probably the best time to switch jobs, because their market…

> A frustrating feature of large silicon valley companies is that if you leave the company and come back later you will typically have better compensation than if you had stayed. Unfortunately, that's true of almost all large companies. It's one of the dumbest polices out there, but virtually every big corporation does it.

This basically means workers do not have any negotiating power by themselves. They only have negotiating power when they have a competing offer.

Re: Apple CPU Gains Grind to a Halt

#26

Post by xyzzy21 »

bin_bash wrote: post #20
musicale wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Was pay bad and didn’t Apple want to increase compensation A frustrating feature of large silicon valley companies is that if you leave the company and come back later you will typically have better compensation than if you had stayed. I could also imagine that the M1 team felt they weren't adequately rewarded after hitting a huge home run. Moreover, it's probably the best time to switch jobs, because their market…

> A frustrating feature of large silicon valley companies is that if you leave the company and come back later you will typically have better compensation than if you had stayed. That’s just not true, especially with stock appreciation. Unless they were grossly underpaid. It might be the case for some L3-L4 but not senior engineers.

No. It's definitely true.

I got my 30% raises per hop by hopping OUT of a company and then back in. Raises were only 3%-8% staying inside.

Re: Apple CPU Gains Grind to a Halt

#27

Post by MichaelRazum »

wsc981 wrote: post #4

> In 2019, Nuvia was founded and later acquired by Qualcomm for $1.4B. Apple’s Chief CPU Architect, Gerard Williams, as well as over a 100 other Apple engineers left to join this firm. More recently, SemiAnalysis broke the news about Rivos Inc, a new high performance RISC V startup which includes many senior Apple engineers. The brain drain continues and impacts will be more apparent as time moves on. Seems very shoc…

Aren't there some agreements that it forbids engineers to switch to a company and work on the same problem? I mean, somethink like this: Develop a cool chip with Apple (with all the help they provide), then move to a startup and build a clone, isn't this somehow forbidden? Or is it just to hard to put that into a contract? I mean guess same is somehow true for software developement.

Re: Apple CPU Gains Grind to a Halt

#29

Post by HelixEndeavor »

imtringued wrote: post #25
tharne wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> A frustrating feature of large silicon valley companies is that if you leave the company and come back later you will typically have better compensation than if you had stayed. Unfortunately, that's true of almost all large companies. It's one of the dumbest polices out there, but virtually every big corporation does it.

This basically means workers do not have any negotiating power by themselves. They only have negotiating power when they have a competing offer.

Or rather that negotiating power only has any teeth if they know you're serious.

Re: Apple CPU Gains Grind to a Halt

#30

Post by HelixEndeavor »

MichaelRazum wrote: post #27
wsc981 wrote: post #4

> In 2019, Nuvia was founded and later acquired by Qualcomm for $1.4B. Apple’s Chief CPU Architect, Gerard Williams, as well as over a 100 other Apple engineers left to join this firm. More recently, SemiAnalysis broke the news about Rivos Inc, a new high performance RISC V startup which includes many senior Apple engineers. The brain drain continues and impacts will be more apparent as time moves on. Seems very shoc…

Aren't there some agreements that it forbids engineers to switch to a company and work on the same problem? I mean, somethink like this: Develop a cool chip with Apple (with all the help they provide), then move to a startup and build a clone, isn't this somehow forbidden? Or is it just to hard to put that into a contract? I mean guess same is somehow true for software developement.

Well I mean, I'm certain Apple owns a lot of the design work they put in, so copy-pasting would certainly be illegal.
Post reply on HN