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Google should take Android back in-house and drop the open source fiction.

The only reason they did it in the first place was to change the business model so Apple couldn't sue them back into the stone age.

No profits from the OS? No way to sue us for the IP theft since there were no profits.

The real question is if Microsoft will continue to try and break Apple Silicon compatibility, or will allow its use unofficially.

On one hand, it threatens Microsoft's bread-and-butter Wintel homogeny - on the other hand, there will soon be a fairly vast pool of Apple Silicon devices which will be entirely outside the Windows market if they do.

And let's face it: this may be the fastest ARM Windows will run for some time, despite Microsoft's claim that they're making their own chips (née Qualcomm).

ppietra said:

"high-end M1 chips"
seems weird that Apple would take 1 year to ship new MacBook Pro with just some new version of the M1, when it already has new CPU cores ready to use...
Just imagine that the new A15 iPhone SoC will almost certainly have better single core performance than the M1 in many tests.

Not weird at all - the new CPU architecture always arrives with the new A series SoC, though it probably takes some time to adapt that technology to a new series of M SoC(s).

Meanwhile, M1x is already built on the A14 architecture and apparently has been ready to ship since June.

M2 should be built on the new A15 technology, and should replace M1 - and Apple may rejigger the core counts and configurations. We should hear more about improvements to the A15's architecture on Tuesday.

nadriel said:

Or, he values his privacy. It goes through the data you have, even if the cause is benevolent, it’s still spying. I want to have the disgusting individuals caught and prosecuted, but I am not willing to give up my right for privacy. I wouldn’t mind hosting my own “cloud” to keep all my photos and data safe from scrubbing. That doesn’t make me a criminal nor should it make suspicious of any criminal activity, at most eccentric in the eyes of some people.

I'm beginning to think a remedial reading course should be a requirement for posting on the internet.

Here's what I read on the subject:

Software on your iPhone will create hashes for photos being uploaded to iCloud photo storage. Those hashes will be compared to a hash database of known illegal widely distributed images reported to the NCMEC (National Center for Missing and Exploited Children).

If there are a sufficient number of hash collisions, the photos whose hashes match will be decrypted and examined by a human. If those photos indeed contain CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Material) the account will be frozen and the matter will be reported to the NCMEC.

Nowhere does it say it will be scrubbing all images on your device - it will only be checking that files being uploaded to iCloud photo storage do not match fingerprints of widely distributed and known CSAM. This is done by Google and Microsoft and any other organization or entity hosting image data by US law - Apple's just catching up on iCloud photo storage. They didn't even say if they would be doing this for photos already in iCloud photo storage, though to be in compliance they may have to do that too.

The whole purpose of this exercise is to insure that pedophiles aren't passing around photos and brazenly putting them in their iDevice photo libraries and uploading them to iCloud photo storage.

This is not image scanning - so your sexts or shared adult photos won't be affected. This is only being done for known, widely distributed CSAM reported to the NCMEC, and uses only file image level fingerprinting.

We all have secrets to hide, and deserve our privacy - but we also have to realize that some things go beyond the pale and should be stopped.

If I were Apple, I'd want to make sure that none of that trash sat on my servers too.

cia said:

OK two things....

One:  Isn't TSMC having issues making chips in Taiwan because of the drought that's been happening there?  If water can be such an issue, why are they building this plant in Arizona, the driest state in the US?

Two:  By the time this plant goes online, 5nm is going to be old news.  Why aren't they aiming for 3nm or better?

Let's be real ... the real threat to TSMC isn't water - it's Communist China and a potential for mainland China to invade Taiwan.

Having a fab in the US is the greatest source of security for domestic chip supply.

As for the fab - you make what you can make. 3nm is still in the labs and production is somewhere off in the future - what they can make now is 5nm. If everything doesn't go sideways, they can build a 3nm fab when they know how to mass produce a 3nm product.