jae

Isn’t it just the magic of tightly integrating all the system components on one pcb? Like it’s a fast cpu to be sure but the handful of cycles saved on each ram access by having them close together really adds up.

it's because this graph is comparing ARM cores with x86 cores and the x86 cores all have the same hardware instruction set whereas the ARM cores don't so it'll never be a 1:1 comparison. graph does not truly prove anything unfortunately except maybe the power scaling of the three intel i9s on display here

they bought P.A. Semi in 2008 and have an architectural license for ARM and a weird company-wide behavior of doing things correctly

fwiw even working here as a performance specialist I still think the silicon team made a demonic pact. I'm grateful they did, it makes my job much easier, but it is a little unnerving.

guess we'll see if they can pull off a Ryzen with their chiplets

Environment praxis is stop buying new stuff

does Asahi have a good opengl driver yet

if EU regulators don't mandate freely replacable ssds by 2030 i'm going to shit

yeah it would be nice

apple should be owned by the World Government

they could just make arm drivers for graphics card's

oh, they learned. it's just that Core generations 12-14 have basically been a stopgap while they do their best to nail down Foveros good enough for desktop use. apparently the Meteor Lake Core Core Ultra laptops (that have Intel's new disaggregated "tile"-based architecture) are quite good