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harry wild said:

All Apple has to do for modularity is look at the gamer built PC industry!  They been doing this for at least 7 years and counting!

Certainly, the gamer built PC industry is a good place to look for modularity. The main problem i currently see in this approach is thermal management, as GPUs and other coprocessors coming in the following years are consuming 500 Watts or even more.

Other than that, apple seems to treat professionals like dumb folk who cant even put a stick of memory into their computer.

pakitt said:

RAM is not enough

Android runs on a house of cards with each app requiring almost 2-3 times more memory than the counterpart on iOS.

Design decisions are not putting tons of memory inside, but putting as much as __required__ (which obviously is dictated by what customers expect from device life expectancy and generally such an expensive device). And obviously, the requirement is that the user has some apps which are accessed very frequently and some assets that get reloaded constantly, it even gets as far as doing all that while combining things like supply chain control (on battery production shortages, as well as sourcing materials in an environmentally friendly way). I have yet to notice any app I use in this pattern to be reloaded once..... I have yet to notice any android manufacturer except Fairphone (which IMO has disadvantage of using this shitty OS) doing meaningful decisions considering these things. And even they dont reach device life expectancy of what an iPhone achieves (just by software update terms alone, thats another AI article for you to read).

BTW, did you know that the decision on which app remains in memory is based on neural net analysis of user application usage patterns stored _ON_DEVICE_?

Sorry for the rant, just needed to clarify some misunderstandings.

Please correct the part where you are talking about RAM amount. You actually forgot to consider that android apps take up 2-3 times the memory an iOS app takes up, and swapping is no issue since iPhone NVMe Storage reaches read speeds of 1300 MB/s.

I am more than certain that it's not 4 cores, but 4 threads belonging to two physical cores which are bundled with a Zephyr core each. SMT is low hanging fruit and it was just a question of time when apple would pick it.

You see, this thing has no LPDDR4 support and the LPDDR3 thing wont go above 16 GB. It is very apparent that Intel kinda WANTS Apple to switch away from their processor offerings to something like AMD or their own, house-bred ARM compatible processor.

I couldn't explain this reckless behaviour in any other way.

Certainly, something like AMD VEGA graphics compute units paired with their super efficient ZEN-based cores (which is even more power efficient than Intels best offering) as AMD plans to release next year will make Intel feel a little insecure just like they feel in Server space where their marketing material gets more and more desperate. I mean they say something like AMD Naples (AMD Server offering) is something like 4 Desktop dies 'glued' togerhet? I mean seriously. What time is it to throw shit at the enemy? XD It's quite apparent that AMD has been developing their Zen architecture primarily for servers since they scale EXTREMELY well, considering that they have this magical infinity fabric with almost infinite bandwidth that is lightyears ahead of what intel sells. Just for explaination reasons, Infinity Fabric is an interconnect that AMD has developed so it can put together multiple Processor dies together to form a much larger logical processor with almost no performance loss (instead of building a large single processor die which has poor yields and doesn't perform as good as a multiple, smaller dies connected together using a high bandwidth fabric would).

It should be clear that this is the way to go when you consider that AMD performs much better at Mac workloads like Metal 2 and OpenCL where NVIDIA just can't pull off their market discriminating tactics (they use to make AMD look bad) since Apple controls what graphics stack developers will use. Combining this with something like eDRAM based on HBM2... this could be literally a very cool mobile chip!

Here is the magic:
Just put the lego blocks together... VEGA and ZEN use the same Infinity Fabric interconnect AMD makes their bread and butter with (Naples-type scalability using the AMD Zeppelin Die). This is very magnificent roadmap execution, Apple style.

I mean ECC is not hard even for consumer products. All AMD consumer offerings support ECC memory, and AMD is being very generous at letting everyone have their PCIe lanes everybody needs to connect their peripherals (thunderbolt) and the GPU game thingies to. Just look at Threadipper. Intel looks in comparison to that something like Moneyripper? :')

Baibai Intel kyahaha~ XD

Well well... sorry for the little rant x)