JinTech

9secondkox2 said:

JinTech said:

9secondkox2 said:

“Intel wants everyone to have high perform  as nice.” LOL

Exactly why Apple is making its own silicon - so everyone can have high performance, not just future lap burn victims. 

M1 scared Intel to high Heaven. They came back 3DFX style, just adding more stuff. And consuming your monthly power budget in the process. 

M2 comes out and Intel thinks they have a slight respite. Haven’t even seen the Max/Ultra/Extreme. Going to be medication time. 

And they have no clue what’s in store with M3. 

Nobody wants Intel anymore. Just fold up and ask Apple for a job. 

Just imagine, M4 will be even crazier!

Yeah, you think you know what you’re poking at, but it’s not there. It’s been widely discussed that M3 is the Apple Silicon Apple has been pushing toward. M1 was a nice baby step. M2 keeps the momentum. M3 is where Apple gets to show off a bit and add the higher end chips into devices with less thermal overhead. Let’s revisit in 9 months. 

If Intel can produce reliably and Apple needs the supply, then perhaps Intel can be allowed to produce the base M chips. 

Oh, I guarantee you Apple is there now with the M4. They do not just release a new chip after only having been developing it for a few months. But yes, I do agree, M3 will be the absolute monster. I cannot wait to revisit in 9 months! See the reactions on the Wintel user's faces!

9secondkox2 said:

“Intel wants everyone to have high perform  as nice.” LOL

Exactly why Apple is making its own silicon - so everyone can have high performance, not just future lap burn victims. 

M1 scared Intel to high Heaven. They came back 3DFX style, just adding more stuff. And consuming your monthly power budget in the process. 

M2 comes out and Intel thinks they have a slight respite. Haven’t even seen the Max/Ultra/Extreme. Going to be medication time. 

And they have no clue what’s in store with M3. 

Nobody wants Intel anymore. Just fold up and ask Apple for a job. 

Just imagine, M4 will be even crazier!

toddzrx said:

oldenboom said:

I have stopped watching the Keynotes some years ago. Sometimes I skim through the Keynote quickly. It seems just iterations, it seems nothing really spectacular. Yes, the M1 was spectacular but it just confirmed what was already leaked. Those "One more thing" topics are still legendary. Just watching them again brings  back memories. I don't recall any of the recent Keynotes but I do recall quite some of those One More Things topics.

Like you, I skim through Keynotes to hit the highlights. Jobs was an outstanding presenter simply because he was comfortable doing it. He didn’t appear forced. He didn’t stand with his feet wide apart like everyone in Apple events does now (who on earth came up with that idea?). He just talked conversationally about the products that he loved making. He was genuinely excited about them. Not that the current team aren’t.  If anything, they’re too excited, too happy, about them. I miss the good ‘ol days. 

I too miss the good 'ol days. Unfortunately, they ain't coming back and Apple is a very different company than they were then. I still remember the days working at CompUSA and everyone dissed on me for being the dedicated "Mac" guy because they sincerely thought, that Apple was crap and that they were going out of business. Wish I could hear their thoughts now! I remember when I told them that Apple was rumored to start having Nvidia GPUs (remember those days?!) and they were only wowed a little bit..."maybe there is some hope"... was their response. When I showed them the command line interface in the developer beta of Mac OS X, with Rhapsody, they were like "it runs DOS?!" and I was like "no...it's UNIX!" That really stumbled them, but only for a minute and then they were back to "well Macs still suck!"

coolfactor said:

October 23, 2001 is when the world changed. iPod was introduced. I remember because that's my birthday.  

I wish Apple would get back to surprising us with new products, not just iterations.

By the way, are you saying Apple silicon is not a new product? 

The Apple Watch Ultra is essentially a 1.0 product that will surely get better with each update. I expect Apple to bake in a lot of new hardware and software features for specific activities and make them exclusively for the Ultra as time passes. I also see Apple buying out companies to help with this effort.