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  • Apple to reportedly invest $100M in struggling supplier Japan Display

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    AppleExposed said:
    This is great if we see more Liquid Retina displays in the future. They are great and cheap. Hopefully an iPhone SE with Liquid Retina will release or a price drop in XR later this year.

    I wanna ask though, what exactly does Apple gain in "investing" in these companies? I'm confused there.

    This is a no-brainer for Apple. Japan Display is the one providing the microLED for the new Mac Pro Displays.
    iqatedo

  • Editorial: Apple's move to ARM is possible because most users want power more than compati...

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    Soli said:
    melgross said:
    firstly, no, the ‘a serir]es still has a long way to go before it can compete
    1) It's an odd assumption to think that the A-series chip is the most powerful chip Apple can design seeing as how those are designed for handheld devices with no options for fans, very limited batteries, and incredibly small spaces, but I find it even more odd that you assume that it would be an A-series chip and not another chip designation, like all the others Apple has come up with already.

    2) We know that Apple's chip designs can compete because we already have evidence that their chips are outpacing what they're putting into many of their Macs, but you're incorrectly assuming that they only way Apple could come out with an ARM-based Macs on the lower-end (where compatibility for Bootcamp and virtualization won't have to be supported) is for Apple to also best Intel on their upcoming Mac Pro performance.

    if Apple does begin this process, it will be a very difficult one.
    Of course Apple has begun this process. Do you really not see all these changes to their codebase at WWDC as not leading to this eventual transition to offer some ARM-baed Macs?
    Yes it is not. The modernization and uniform changes have happened twice at NeXT when I worked there, and now three times at Apple. They had nothing to do with the platform ISA which will forever be x86 based.

    Intel is just now phasing out Itanium, and no one at Apple even bothered porting to that.

    AMD is blowing up the market with their Zen architecture which has 5 major and 5 minor designs already in the middle to stamp out phases of design and mature market levels.

    Apple went ARM because of the Patent IP accessibility and only player in the world for embedded systems balance of performance and power requirements.

    ARM cannot compete in the x86 market. Apple who co-developed ARM knows this from its inception.

    Moving to a 64 core/ 128 thread PCI-E 4.0 based Mac Pro/iMac Pro/iMac etc., will cost Apple NOTHING with AMD as the CPUs/APUs/GPGPUs other than a custom ASIC on their custom designed motherboards. The cost reduction and margin increases will make Apple far more than they have with Intel.

    Having been behind the curtain at NeXT and Apple if they were going to waste their time on ARM for desktop it would have happened 8 years ago. Even with ARM's latest designs it gets its ass handed to it.


    None of these chip designs competes with Intel and AMD. Not by a long shot. Nor will they. PowerPC is losing ground to AMD, not just Intel.

    ROME is arriving in a few days for EPYC 2 at 64 core/128 threads whose chiplet design blows the doors off of anything Intel can do. The upcoming Ryzen 3950x 16 core/ 32 thread non Threadripper CPU stomps all over the competition. The 64/128 Threadripper 3 will be the only non Apple platform in the Windows/Linux creative space market.

    Apple moving to AMD is the inevitable outcome, not ARM.

    jdb8167

  • ARKit 3 features restricted to latest iPhones and iPads

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    douglas bailey said:
    iPad Mini 2019 has an A12 chip. But I don't know what ANE is and I don't know if it has a True Depth Camera?
    Also, you didn't mention the new iPad Touch. It surely has the A12.
    iPod Touch has the A10 Fusion Chip.
    AppleExposedwatto_cobra

  • 'iPhone XI' and 'iPhone XI Max' case manufacturing dummies pop up on Chinese social media

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    avon b7 said:
    At first, and depending on the render, I wasn't sure if I liked the camera placement setup.

    Over time I've reached the conclusion that something seems wrong. It seems lopsided.

    There was talk of making them less visible in the final product. I hope that's the case.
    Take an Engineering Physics course on Optics then come back and comment. You'll realize the reason for this array once you understand the laws of optics. They are attempting to create a DSLR capable lens array inside a phone.
    tmayemig647StrangeDaysanantksundaramradarthekat

  • Hands-on with Apple's new Core i9 iMac 5K with Vega graphics: benchmarks and first impress...

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    Unigine is a useless benchmark, but if Apple had modernized their OpenGL stack to 4.5 you'd earn well over 100fps on average. Then again I'd rather see tests against Metal 2 Benchmarks.
    williamlondonwatto_cobra