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
#32The dearth of WWDC rumors this year is really amazing to me. Apple really is taking leaks very seriously. We're 10 days away from the keynote, and absolutely nothing is getting out. This speculation is the best that Macworld can do? No offense to them, but I mean, the rumors are slim pickings. I really hope that Apple fixes its laptop lineup at WWDC. It's a complete and total shitshow right now. And that's coming fro…
Re: Apple's 7nm A12 chip could be the best feature in the 2018 iPhones
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Have you looked at raspberry pi clones built around FPGAs?
I didn't even know these existed! From a googling I can only find hats/daughter boards for existing raspberry pis. Is that what you mean or are there ones that are all in one?
Here is somehing that costs around a hundred dollars (a bit higher) called Zynqberry.
https://shop.trenz-electronic.de/en/TE0726-03M-ZynqBerry-Zyn...
Re: Apple's 7nm A12 chip could be the best feature in the 2018 iPhones
#34The dearth of WWDC rumors this year is really amazing to me. Apple really is taking leaks very seriously. We're 10 days away from the keynote, and absolutely nothing is getting out. This speculation is the best that Macworld can do? No offense to them, but I mean, the rumors are slim pickings. I really hope that Apple fixes its laptop lineup at WWDC. It's a complete and total shitshow right now. And that's coming fro…
You're dead right on the laptop lineup. Touchbar, whatever, I don't think that's an enormous issue one way or the other -- but the incoherency of the tech specs matters a bunch.
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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.
Re: Apple's 7nm A12 chip could be the best feature in the 2018 iPhones
#36I 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.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
I didn't even know these existed! From a googling I can only find hats/daughter boards for existing raspberry pis. Is that what you mean or are there ones that are all in one?
I own a parallela with a Zynq1020 fpga and a form factor similar to a raspberry pi. Here is somehing that costs around a hundred dollars (a bit higher) called Zynqberry. https://shop.trenz-electronic.de/en/TE0726-03M-ZynqBerry-Zyn...
Re: Apple's 7nm A12 chip could be the best feature in the 2018 iPhones
#38The dearth of WWDC rumors this year is really amazing to me. Apple really is taking leaks very seriously. We're 10 days away from the keynote, and absolutely nothing is getting out. This speculation is the best that Macworld can do? No offense to them, but I mean, the rumors are slim pickings. I really hope that Apple fixes its laptop lineup at WWDC. It's a complete and total shitshow right now. And that's coming fro…
Re: Apple's 7nm A12 chip could be the best feature in the 2018 iPhones
#39I 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…
Apple chips famously have Imagination GPUs that have zero open-source support, a far ways off even from Nvidia. They are the absolute worst. That's before you consider that all the stuff Apple did to that poor ARM probably means you can't even boot Linux into a terminal on it today.
Not anymore, Apple switched to in-house GPUs recently.
Re: Apple's 7nm A12 chip could be the best feature in the 2018 iPhones
#40I 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…
Apple chips famously have Imagination GPUs that have zero open-source support, a far ways off even from Nvidia. They are the absolute worst. That's before you consider that all the stuff Apple did to that poor ARM probably means you can't even boot Linux into a terminal on it today.