rob53

Here's some information on the Arm instruction set (ISA) and general Arm information. 

https://developer.arm.com/architectures/instruction-sets I imagine Apple is using the A64 ISA.
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A picometer would be the next smaller processor fabrication but even at the high numbers we're talking about the width of mineral cells. There has to be a limit on how small you can go before the size of the components won't work anymore. Once this limit is reached, how will processor fabrication change to improve speed and reduced power usage? This is like the limits of processor speed. We've already reached those limits even with overclocking that can't be sustained. 

GeorgeBMac said:

rob53 said:

Before anyone tries  to say anything I'm saying is anti-semitism, please understand that I have nothing against all the people of Jewish faith around the world. I do, however, have lots to say about all the criminal activity by technology firms based in Israel and Israel in general. Israeli firms have been targeting US government installations for years and we do little to stop them. Boasting that they create malware tools for governments and law enforcement agencies is not a good sales pitch for consumers and citizens in general. Shut them all down.

I agree.

Condemning criminal actions is not anti-  anything -- except anti-bad-behavior.

To put this into perspective:   If China did what Israel and the NSO have been doing right wing heads would be exploding across the U.S.

The hypocrisy is akin a to being pro-life while supporting capital punishment.

Well, you just identified the hypocrisy of the Republican party. Their platform, and the ideals of many Catholic Republicans, if pro-life and pro capital punishment. In fact, I know of two family members who vote Republican, even voting for Trump, simply because they are anti-abortionists. Single beliefs, like pro-Israel by both Republicans and Democrats, is what is causing the most problems in the US. Let's look at everything that's going on by every political party and country before cherry picking who and what we support. Criminal activity no matter who does it is illegal and needs to be condoned not celebrated. The actions of NSO and Cellebrite along with the NSA, CIA and FBI are many times illegal and most time very close to illegal and need to be stopped.

That statement doesn't show everything Apple said, only some excerpts. It would have been better for The Verge to publish the actual statement so we know exactly what Apple said. This is the difference between USB and Thunderbolt, something many people who only see numbers refuse to acknowledge:

Both Thunderbolt 3 and Thunderbolt 4 offer higher hardware requirements compared to the standard USB 3 and USB4 standards that they’re built off of, and offer a consistency that regular USB-C standards can often be sorely lacking in.

Thunderbolt 4, in particular, offers the same 40 Gbps speeds that Thunderbolt 3 had offered, but adds even stricter hardware requirements: devices will have to be able to support either two 4K displays or one 8K display, and allow for PCIe data transfer speeds of up to 32 Gbps.

aderutter said:

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

As a standard, Thunderbolt in all its iterations is an abject failure for two reasons: No affordable devices supported it and the selection was extremely limited. Thunderbolt was only found on external SSD drives that cost about twice as much as the USB 3 versions and often offered little additional performance. USB on the other hand has been a staggering success. When people purchase a new computer, the first thing they often look for is how many USB C 3.2 ports they offer. It works with everything (including Thunderbolt) and is frequently updated with additional speed/features. The only thing you have to watch out for are shady cables on Amazon (pay a bit extra and buy from a reputable brand). If you really want Thunderbolt, buy an add in card for your Mac Pro.

Thunderbolt 3 is 40 Gbps, so only 8 x the performance of USB3.0, 4 x the performance of USB3.1 and twice that of USB3.2

I agree most people don’t need this performance and that for low-end users USB3.n is usually adequate.

I think the best thing about this TB4 looks to be the 4-port dock possibility.

Your understanding is limited. I'm using a TB3 external drive as the boot drive on an iMac that came with a 5400rpm drive. It was less expensive to buy the external drive than to get an SSD internal drive, yet the speeds are the same. It is also easier to replace the current external drive with a larger external SSD drive or a 4-bay NVMe RAID, keeping one drive for startup and using the other three for RAID. People always want more speed.