ericthehalfbee

sarrica said:

ARM doesn't manufacture chips, they license their reference designs and intellectual property. Apple's chips are manufactured by TSMC and, until the last iPhone rev or two, Samsung.

Samsung, Qualcomm and Huawei license actual ARM core designs. Apple only licenses the ARMv8 ISA and designs their own custom cores to run it. That’s why Apple processors are vastly superior to everyone else. Samsung uses a mix of both, but their custom cores are way behind Apple.

sflocal said:

So does this new ruling invalidate the recommendation to ban iPhones from a few hours ago?  I don't understand why it's not explained clearly.

No. This is the first case Qualcomm filed. The second case is the one ruled on earlier today. It just happens that the final result from the first case landed on the same day as the preliminary result in the second case.

fasterquieter said:

I wonder why the Qualcom's single core performance is so far behind.

Because nobody has cores anywhere near as advanced as Apple.

And Qualcomm, realizing that single core is very important, actually overclocked one core and doubled its cache to try and get a higher single core result. And this is the best they can come up with. Rather pathetic.

It's already been mentioned, but....


Primate Labs Geekbench Browser (which aggregates thousands of tests) lists the iPhone XS Max at 4,797 single (very close to yours) but 11,225 in multi (a full 900 pts higher than your result). They don't list the S10 yet, which is typical since they haven't had enough tests performed yet to show up. This happens every 

AnTuTu lists the iPhone XS Max at 355,762 (I don't know how many results they use to get that figure). They have the Exynos 9820 equipped S10 at 332,850 but no result for the 855 version. Again, your AnTuTu result for the iPhone XS Max is extremely low (by 40,000).

I just ran both tests on my iPhone XS Max "as is" (meaning I didn't do a cold boot or delete any running Apps - I literally just started the benchmarks when I saw this article pop up). I got 361,314 for AnTuTu and 4767/11,245 for Geekbench.

Clearly there's something amiss with your iPhone results. Are you on beta software? Running something in the background?

Idiots all.

There are lots of ways for criminals to have secure communication between themselves that the police will NEVER be able to intercept. This is just another bullshit ploy to get access to our data.