How did Apple become so successful making high-end CPU chips on their own so quickly?
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#72In the same way that Wikipedians rush to update the pages of recently dead celebrities, I'm surprised there isn't a similar rush to update pages like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_silicon around events like this.
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#73> And, a new media engine now includes support for AV1 decode, providing more efficient and high-quality video experiences from streaming services.
It's taken years but AV1 has ended up everywhere.
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
And yet _still_ 8GB of RAM as the baseline. It's probably as profitable as it is evil / misleading.
Calling it evil is a bit of a stretch.
Hyperbole like this is necessary for people to justify the extreme negative emotions they feel about a computer they’ll never buy having specifications that they disapprove of.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
And yet _still_ 8GB of RAM as the baseline. It's probably as profitable as it is evil / misleading.
Calling it evil is a bit of a stretch.
Is it? Its pretty evil to overcharge and prey on a customer base who doesn't know any better, but would benefit from a more usable starting point, oh say 16...
Tims a finance guy, they are kinda evil by default.
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#76How did Apple become so successful making high-end CPU chips on their own so quickly?
Bring in people with expertise, buy outside expertise where you can, focus on the product you actually want instead of the product that will appeal to every possible use case for every possible customer that the chip marketing team can imagine, don't sweat where you can put the margin line between chip and system integrator, because they are both you.
I suspect any $2,600,000,000,000 company could pull it off, if they moved first.
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#77My favorite part was when Tim Apple teased the new M3 parmesan cheese grater.
https://i.postimg.cc/TYpx7SVf/Screen-Shot-2023-10-30-at-8-48...
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#78I purchased a fully maxed out M2 Max MacBook Pro when it was announced like 6 months ago. I knew it was going to be outdated eventually, but within 6 months, wow. Did not expect that.
I use a maxed-out M1 Max and have 0 complaints. There was never a task where I felt the memory or CPU performance was not enough
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#79>Rendering speeds are now up to 2.5x faster than on the M1 family of chips.1 The CPU performance cores and efficiency cores are 30 percent and 50 percent faster than those in M1, respectively, and the Neural Engine is 60 percent faster than the Neural Engine in the M1 family of chips. WTH, was Apple sandbagging on the M1?
These are the new 3nm chips from TSMC, right?
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Here in EU, the price I get in the local Apple Store is 2029€ = $2153.
You will need to convince your politicians to lower import duties and taxes. And that $1599 USD is without taxes. So not the whole US has this price. It was always worth for me to travel to Oregon to have zero tax.
Even without the taxes it costs ~$200 more in the EU. Admittedly mandatory 2 year warranty might play a role