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  • Despite potshots, Intel & Samsung want to make Apple Silicon

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    Maybe having a subsidiary that purely focuses on fabricating, like TSMC, could be beneficial to Intel itself? This would mean the parent company would focus purely on designing the chips and then simply be a primary client to the subsidiary. The subsidiary in the meantime would have the mandate of becoming the best chip fabricator out there, like TSMC, and with the ability to manufacture for anyone would have the incentive to invest early in new technology. Also by having them separate, then hopefully internal politics wouldn’t compromise working with other partners.  .

    There are probably a lot of details I am missing, but right now something clearly needs to change. 

    As for Samsung, they may be one company by name, but like a number of Asian corporations operate like many companies under one roof. This means while you are competing with one division, you are nicely doing business with another.  
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  • Apple Watch import ban stay opposed by ITC

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    I wonder how much of this is Apple being abusive and how much of this is down to Masimo being greedy with the terms of the licensing? Is anyone aware of these details?
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  • Rumor: M4 MacBook Pro with AI enhancements expected at the end of 2024

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    tyler82 said:
    How many years until Apple actually has decent AI though? They're not really a leader right now. I'd wait until then to buy a current computer that could actually take advantage of AI advancements.
    What do you mean by decent AI and how do you define AI? Also AI for what purpose? 

    I ask the question because too many times the answer is usually a lot of hand waving and then the person admitting they don’t know. Also when they do decide on a simple example, then a simple algorithm will address it.  
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  • Aspyr ends 32-bit Mac game sales in shift to 64-bit support only

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    razorpit said:
    Isn't this just a matter of re-compiling to 64-bit?
    Not always. For example, if there were any assumptions made about the size of an integer, for example that can break things or an assumption was made on how an external function does things, but that function has its own bugs revealed with the change in bitness.

    Some other are indicated here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9728250/migrating-from-32-to-64-bit-releases
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  • Apple now calls itself a gaming company fighting with Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo

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    If Apple sees themselves as a gaming company, then there are a few things they need to do:

       - Be game developer friendly, in attitude.
       - Make it easy to port games to the platform.
       - Further improve Rosetta 2 to make performance of Intel games well on the M1 processors.
       - Sponsor or provide code contributions to common frameworks used by game developers.
       - Demonstrate that games can run at the best settings on an average current generation Mac, otherwise they aren't really competing in any meaningful way.

    I am sure there are plenty of other things they can do too.

    Just looking at the history of console gaming consoles we can see what business and technical decisions created challenges for games developers. Modern Vintage Gamer covers quite a few aspects here.
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  • JP Morgan drops Apple target price over questions on when AI iPhone will launch

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    Just banking on AI without a real purpose is crazy. Good AI is invisible and solves real problems. Bad AI is just making the non-technical Wall Street people happy, through gimmicky functionality, without doing anything really useful. Of course there is another class of AI, but it’s hard to know from the outside whether it is AI or algorithm. 
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  • When to expect every Mac to get the AI-based M4 processor

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    smsm said:
    I'm I the only person who doesn't want AI on his devices? So for the interaction I have had with AI has been Artificial Stupid not intelligence. If Apple forces AI with the next operating systems I will not install it or purchase any device with it pre-installed. I already have all the intelligence I need. I use my brain.
    You probably have some form of “AI” already in your computer. The problem with the term AI is that it ends up meaning whatever the marketing team wants it to mean, independent of the tech team’s definition of AI. 

    AI can be neural networks, knowledge bases, deep statistical analysis and even a rebranding of a complex algorithm (or maybe not complex at all in certain cases). 

    The other problem with the current approach of AI is that it ends up being technology oriented development, rather than need oriented development. 

    As for using your brain, I agree using what you have, but sometimes delegating a task can free you up to do other things. Of course there are times when an AI can try to be too smart, but then again that can be a simple algorithm - too many times in MS Office that I’ve been corrected in ways I didn’t want. 
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  • How TSMC beat Intel to be Apple's main chip foundry

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    Sounds like the only way for Intel to even to try to win Apple, or any other boundary would be to split. This would result in Intel becoming a chip design business only, while spinning off its foundry to a separate ISMC (Intel Semi-Conductor Manufacturing) or USSMC (US Semi-Conductor Manufacturing) business?

    Ironically, the business attitude at Intel sounds very similar to that of other US businesses, such as Boeing and John Deer, which is hurting them.
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  • Asahi Linux M4 support hits a roadblock because of Apple Silicon changes

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    For server grade applications, many people would chose Linux over MacOS or Windows. Being able to use Mac hardware (new or used) for this would be a nice feature. I just wished Apple would quietly assist the Asahi team, since it would theoretically allow for more hardware sales and a certain goodwill. 
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  • Japan law will require Apple to allow alternate iPhone app stores

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    Knowing how well the Amazon Fire store was managed, I am foreseeing a future of fake apps and malware. Of course, I may be wrong, but unless any of this regulation has language for safeguards, then I’ll watching very carefully. 

    Right now it is the 18+ apps that have the most to gain from this new legislation. 
    Alex1N