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Apple's M1 Max GPU is at least 3x faster than M1, Metal benchmark shows
I did comparison with some Core i9 11 generation and it is interesting to see some subtests differences in single and multicore. It seems sometimes as Intel would run multicore on 2 or so cores max or is very inefficient.Especially AES-XTS, Machine Learnin, Speech Recognition
The same is for Apple with Text Compression.
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Proposed antitrust bills would ban Apple from preinstalling its own iOS apps
sflocal said:So if I build my own phone and my own os, and sell it as a single product, I would be barred from loading my own apps on it?F**k you politicians.I see no scenario where Apple would ever let this happen. If passed, it will be forever tied up in the courts. The iPhone has plenty of competition. There is zero point to this.All big businesses become at some point public service. And it needs some rules.I do not mind when non essential apps are not installed. Like Page, Music. But it is stupid to threaten messages and other basic services.As mentioned it should be applied to other areas like supermarkets where they should not be able offer own branded products. What would be positive.
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Airline industry launching vaccine passport iOS app
Why the h... bother with such horrid nonsense. Vaccine only purpose is to prevent strong impact on person health or death. It has no, no impact on getting infected again so not protecting you from spreading "covid" further. Are all ppl blind?And..... If you look at the last paragraph on page 39 of this recent FDA-CDC circular, you will see a confession of fact by the CDC. They have never had and still do not have the SARS CoV-2 virus isolated (https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download). The importance of this is as follows - under the FOI (Freedom of Information Act), some major research universities and governments in the UK, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and now the US admit that they have not isolated a single SARS CoV virus ‑ 2 .How can one make vaccine for ever changing virus that even was not isolated? Why would anyone healthy be willing to be lab mouse to test unproven vaccine on disease you need to be tested to know you have it? And so on...
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Apple takes TSMC's whole 3nm production capacity for Mac, iPhone, iPad
zimmie said:50k processors per month on a bleeding-edge fab tech might be enough for the Mac Pro. Definitely not enough for anything more mainstream.
As an aside, TSMC uses wafers 300mm in diameter in most of its fab processes. That's 70,685mm^2. The A14 is 88mm^2. You lose about 6% of the area of a wafer to the edges and unmasked regions for handling. That means very roughly 750 A14 processors per wafer (before you lose some to flaws). 50k processors per month at that density would be about two wafers per day. That's believable preview volume for a bleeding-edge fab process while the fab works on scaling it out effectively.
That means about 225 mil processors a year. I think it could be Apple whole production combined. They roughly ship 200 mil iPones, 50 mil iPads and 20 mil Macs. It will increase but not all use latest processors. On other hand iPad and Mac processors are bigger. But it can be rally true they bought out whole production for whole year.
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Hollywood thinks new Mac mini 'could be huge' for video editors
As many points it is too early to judge. It will for sure not replace PRO machines and Apple would not shot into own leg. So Even powerful, CPU/GPU shares memory. No one knows I/O performance, limited expandability so it may be useful for some tasks as addition to PRO workflow. It can be used for video editing but question is in what resolution/codec/bitrate. In past was done PRO video editing on much worse machines.
