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Why does EU think that they should be able to snatch the technology that Apple has made popular? This behavior makes me think of the nationalization of oil refineries in Venezuela. Not a good result for the population. The original responses to the Exposure Notification API indicate how well governments and technology mix.

... Personally if Apple doesn't implement SMT they will need a 24 core laptop machine by the end of 2021 to remain competitive.  

My opinion is that the choice will be thumbs down to SMT.  Apple has avoided that up to this point. I'm guessing that the reason is heat generation - SMT concentrates it, more cores spread the heat.  Some chips have been built with 54 billion features - the A12X only uses 10 billion. Only! There would seem to be lots of expansion space available. 24 cores sounds really fast!

Conspicuous by its absence in the article and comments is any mention of a beefed up neural engine. Apple made an announcement last week building up their ability to perform ML tasks. Better Natural Language Processing would be an early goal.

Pure harassment, in my opinion. Chinese companies gleefully steal others’ intellectual property, but demand respect for theirs? Unfortunately, Apple will have to spend some of our money to defend themselves.

What about the Neural Engine?  Will a new chip include tools for voice recognition and synthesis, and other ML tasks?  That's a way of extending beyond Intel.