Why did the jump from Intel MacBooks to Apple Silicon feel that huge?(freipaul.com)
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Why did the jump from Intel MacBooks to Apple Silicon feel that huge?
https://freipaul.com/posts/why-did-apple-silicon-feel-so-huge
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Author here - thanks for actually reading the whole thing, very glad you enjoyed it!
Fair question: I have no affiliation with Ubitium - no stake, no payment, no involvement in the company. The mention at the end comes from genuine interest in the bet against specialization.
Happy to be challenged on the technical parts.
Fair question: I have no affiliation with Ubitium - no stake, no payment, no involvement in the company. The mention at the end comes from genuine interest in the bet against specialization.
Happy to be challenged on the technical parts.
Don’t let suspicious people like me keep you from doing good work. Based on your first post, I will very likely devour the information you put up about programmable chips, even if it is coming through the lens of one specific (future) vendor.
Thanks, that means a lot! Healthy skepticism is part of what makes HN worth posting to.
The next post will take a while, but it’s coming.
Excerpt:
«Which, to me, is the actual answer to this post’s title question. The M1 did not feel huge because of any single trick. It felt huge because Apple moved every lever at once: the widest core in the industry, on the best process node in the industry, with memory in the package, efficiency cores doing the housekeeping, an OS scheduler that knows about all of it, and a translation layer with dedicated silicon support so that nobody had to wait for the ecosystem to catch up. Any single one of these would have made a nice bullet point in a keynote. Together, and only together, they made a laptop that felt like a different kind of machine. That is what ten years of building phone chips on a merciless power budget teaches you.»