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apple just announced what many of us have been anticipating for years now

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with equal measures dread and excitement they're ditching Intel yup the longest

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lived CPU partnership in mac history is

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done and apple has confirmed not only the development of their own ARM-based

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chips in-house but also their intention to complete this migration away from

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Intel systems over the next two years

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max and potentially even pcs may never be

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the same but me you can always count on me and my

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since the development of the a4 soc began in 2008 apple has been

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consistently designing their own silicon in-house thanks to ARM's generous

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licensing model that allows third parties to implement their instruction

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set in standard ways but without limitation in terms of core layouts

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this flexibility gave apple the ability to control the entire design of the

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iphone and since the iphone 4s they've

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consistently defended their fastest smartphone crown

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apple's chip design prowess has brought them to the point now where the current

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iphone 11 pro a phone can offer up

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single core performance that's competitive with their current macbooks

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in synthetic benchmarks and that's to say nothing of their other in-house

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silicon meanwhile it's no secret that Intel hasn't been performing up to

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expectations for years apple's efforts to build

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slimmer and lighter macs with longer battery life have been frustrated by the

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enormous heat that they've had to deal with

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or have outright refused to deal with now Intel's upcoming 10 nanometer tiger

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lake micro architecture with z graphics has been making headlines for its

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promising performance improvements but here's the thing if apple's promising to

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launch a laptop with their own silicon this calendar year they clearly got sick

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of waiting anywhere from 12 to 36 months ago and have been well past the point of

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no return for quite some time furthermore tiger lake's thermal

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performance is yet to be seen so

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with 12 years of experience designing cpus and having achieved a claimed 100x

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performance improvement since they started why buy cpus that might turn out

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to be flops from Intel or from AMD for that matter

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if you want it done right do it yourself and i don't even blame apple for seeing

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it that way i mean i love Android as much as anyone but look at how much

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runtime apple squeezes out of a comparatively small battery next to

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their Android competitors and this is all while offering a snappy user

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experience within many cases half the system memory it's this control and

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consistent execution that makes apple so

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darn profitable here's the thing there's

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always a trade-off between your upfront r d costs versus your ongoing costs

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you can allow someone else like google or qualcomm to handle your operating

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system and your CPU design that keeps your engineering staff requirements

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lower but you might need to make up for some sloppiness with a big fat battery and

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some extra RAM or if you're apple you

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spend up front optimizing that hardware

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perfectly so that every unit you ship is as inexpensive as possible

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this model works out great as long as you can sell enough that your units

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times cost savings is greater than that upfront r d investment

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we see the same thing in game consoles sony for example built a custom rad

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tools crack and hardware decompression chip for the ps5 that was a complicated

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undertaking but without it sony would need a bigger faster SSD or a much

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beefier CPU in every console unit they

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ship so that initial investment could turn out to be absolutely game-changing

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pardon the pun but while using apple silicon in a laptop

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might not be painful the transition could be

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going from power pc to Intel was a lot smoother than from motorola to powerpc

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but it was still fraught with compatibility and performance

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implications early on while universal binary eventually became standard until

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powerpc died out the rosetta translation layer's first incarnation didn't run

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especially well and apple prevented their pro suites like final cut and

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logic from running under it as a result this time around apple says rosetta can

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translate an application at install time

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rather than at run time potentially making things much faster overall only

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time can tell how that works out though as with the transition to Intel

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eventually all applications will be ARM only and that has some both frightening

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and exciting implications for consumers

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first ipad os apps can basically

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just work on a mac apple arcade and the

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new maps and messages apps are working examples but the possibilities go much

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much deeper because iOS and ipad os are

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based on macOS it's relatively easy for

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apple to unify the entire ecosystem now around their custom ARM

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architecture effectively erasing the distinction between what's a mac and

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what's an idevice for developers the

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ipad is even getting relative mouse input for gaming and desktop grade

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spotlight search now however this convergence isn't without danger

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there's nothing official but it seems that the app store is being emphasized

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far more right now than alternative ways of installing applications and that's a

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big problem for services with external monetization schemes now to be clear the

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app store offers a valuable service and apple should make money from it but the

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thing is if i already have something in place why should i as a developer be

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forced to use it least of all on a desktop operating

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system where there isn't really much precedent for this that's where things

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get frightening because it's not clear who apple is putting first right now i

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mean promising custom hardware solutions

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tailor-made to what their customers need might actually be worth some

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monopolistic behavior to some people but there's one small problem does apple

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even know what their customers want to do with their computers the last few

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years have been spotty at best when it comes to listening to both customer and

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developer feedback i mean who asked for the touch bar and then how did it take

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an unacceptable three years for the company with the world's eighth highest

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r d spending to get rid of a fundamentally broken keyboard design to

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be fair apple has demonstrated a willingness to change lately user

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upgradable storage on the mac pro for example that's a great step forward

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there's just a lot of questions still to be answered in how this whole thing is

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gonna play out like how did the ipad pro with magic keyboard and macbook differ

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now what if Intel gets their [ __ ] together will pcs completely overtake

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them like what happened during late game power pc or what if the opposite happens

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the computer industry has a long and proud tradition of doing something kind

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of half ass at first waiting for apple to do it properly and then finding a

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hundred slightly worse ways to copy that will Windows for ARM become more widely

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available what's going to happen to boot camp only time can answer these

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questions but in the meantime i do have some predictions for how things are

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going to play out one Intel has tried to

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make low idle power consumption and always on computing a thing for years

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with initiatives like smart connect but it's never actually worked very well

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meanwhile apple has this absolutely on

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lockdown with iOS you can leave your ipad untouched for literally weeks at a

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time pick it up and all your files notifications and settings are right

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there waiting for you and you probably still have 20 battery to boot this along

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with the instant on experience that we take for granted on phones is coming to

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mac which means that apple has a major selling point on their hands even for

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people like me who do basically everything in a browser anyway

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next this is going to completely fix the thermal throttling that we have

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criticized apple for mercilessly over the last few years now putting a TDP

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rating on apple's soc is a little bit

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challenging but a non-text performance data indicates that the a12z's vortex

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cores in the ipad pro can draw about

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four watts in a single threaded workload if we were to extrapolate that out to

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all four vortex cores which is unlikely

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to be possible on a tablet but very possible on a laptop with better cooling

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and power delivery that's about 16 watts

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fully unchained which curiously happens

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to be almost exactly the cooling capacity of the 2020 macbook air with

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its weird fanless heatsink which is why my conspiracy theory might actually not

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be that far off they could stick an ARM processor into that same cooling and

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chassis design and it'll run faster cooler and probably with better battery

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life thanks to its ability to use low power cores to handle background tasks

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now i actually doubt that they will change much else on the first go because

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the marketing practically writes itself you know same mac as before

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more apple than ever magic

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probably a little catchier than that but i think you guys catch my drift

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prediction number three if they want this to be a success on the desktop

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either apple's ARM cores need to get competitive with x86 cores in single

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threaded tasks and i mean heavy desktop ones or they need to augment them now

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desktops are definitely coming and based on these performance claims i think

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apple is taking the latter path here giving themselves two years to finally

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push developers to both properly take advantage of many core CPU designs

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and to properly take advantage of heterogeneous compute which is using a

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combination of CPU and GPU or neural

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processor for that matter to do conventional CPU work

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faster when it comes to performance though there's more to consider

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ARM given that it's a risk architecture is able to do more work in fewer clock

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cycles and with less power than a sisk architecture like x86 can that's an

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advantage that apple used to enjoy with early power pc macs outperforming their

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Intel counterparts at much lower clock speeds but there are some drawbacks to

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this approach while risk is more streamlined with no

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microcode for example it also lacks flexibility meaning that if your

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application uses an x86 instruction for

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which there is no ARM equivalent you as

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a developer are looking at either having to work around it manually or simulate

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it with many more cycles than you would otherwise need that's part of why

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microsoft's Windows rt didn't support x86 emulation when it launched what

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makes this different is that compared to powerpc or even Windows rt

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many developers are by now well accustomed to working with ARM thanks to

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mobile devices although there are still unknowns

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will adobe for example be able to quickly implement every feature in the

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ARM version of creative cloud i mean

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given they can't even get every feature working in the regular anyway will apple

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try to force them into the app

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i mean i can't imagine adobe giving up 30 of their subscription fees come on

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the bottom line anyway is that nothing quite like this has happened before

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we're watching history being made today and whether apple succeeds or fails one

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thing is clear and that's that the computer industry will never be quite

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sorry Anthony i'm going to hijack this i'm going to send them over to the

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subzero water cooling on the 2020 macbook air video because that's where

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we found out that that laptop is designed around seemingly an a12z

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processor