Re: ARM Mac Impact on Intel
       
Intel’s real money is in high-end CPUs sold to prosperous Cloud operators, not in supplying lower-end chips to cost-cutting laptop makers.

I keep searching for "Graviton" in these thinkpieces. I keep getting "no results found."

Mac ARM laptops mean cloud ARM VMs.

And Amazon's Graviton2 VMs are best in class for price-performance. As Anandtech said:

If you’re an EC2 customer today, and unless you’re tied to x86 for whatever reason, you’d be stupid not to switch over to Graviton2 instances once they become available, as the cost savings will be significant.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15578/cloud-clash-amazon-graviton2-arm-against-intel-and-amd/10
       
quadhome, 12 hours ago

Re: Apple announces it will switch to its own processo...
       
Commenters here seem dubious. I’ll take the contra-position. This feels to me like it’s going to be great; a big win for consumers and developers.

Current A12z chips are highly performant; Apple is roughly one chip cycle ahead on perfomance/watt from any other manufacturer. I presume their consumer hardware will launch with an A13Z, or maybe an A14 type chip.

Apple has consistently shipped new chip designs on time; Intel’s thrashing has cost them at least two significant update cycles on the macbook line in the last six years. Search this fine site for complaints about how new mac laptops don’t have real performance benefits over old ones —- those complaints are 100% down to being saddled with Intel.

Apple has a functional corporate culture that ships; adding complete control of the hardware stack in is going to make for better products, full stop.

Apple has to pay Intel and AMD profit margins for their mac systems. They are going to be able…

Re: Unsubscribe: The $0-budget movie that ‘topped the ...
       
I just vomited a little in my mouth
       
alfiedotwtf, 2 days ago