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cloudguy said:

tmay said:

cloudguy said:

A14 is only hexacore. Strange. Was certain that it was going to be octa-core. Hexacore is good enough to replace the i3 and i5 in the Mac Mini and MacBook Air, but for MacBook Pro and iMac they are going to need an octacore design at minimum.

CloudDude, the A series SOC isn't going to be used in any production Mac, so you can stop clutching your pearls.

I have read in various places that it was. Some have said that it would not be, but more places have stated that it would be than would not. Do you have a link? Thanks.

No link required.  Watch Apple's WWDC presentation.  Near the end, when Johny Srouji presents, they specifically claim they are making an entire "family of Mac specific SoCs".   That's all you need to know.  This is their phone chip that also works well in a mid range iPad.  It's already faster than the vast majority of Intel based laptops.

Looks like a good deal for me.   I'm already paying for 2TB iCloud, Family Music and Apple Arcade now which costs $29.97 + tax.  I'm getting Apple TV+ free until December.  So, for 2 cents less, I'll get the same (including Apple TV+) with News and Fitness.  I'm in.

flydog said:

Nonsense.  Apple doesn’t rely on ARM for design or manufacturing. It has a perpetual license that allow it to design its own chips.

You either didn’t read or didn’t understand my post as your comment doesn’t address what I actually said.

Mike Wuerthele said:

It doesn't need to. Apple has its own chip designers, and TSMC is its foundry. At this point, Apple relies on ARM for nothing. I do expect the Apple Silicon design to migrate further away from ARM as time progresses, though. 

You keep saying this, but I disagree.  There is a difference between the chip design and the instruction set architecture.  There is absolutely no indication that Apple will deviate with a custom ISA that is not compatible with existing ARM ISA.  Apple is even demonstrating how it can run Linux through virtualization, etc.  They couldn’t do that if they didn’t keep compatibility with ARM ISA.  The A13 is fully ARMv8.4-A compatible. If Apple were to deviate from the ISA, maybe theirs would be a superset of an actual ARM ISA.

The real question is regarding the nature of Apple’s license.  Does it cover all future versions?  Can nVidia claim ARMv9 is not part of that license?  Unlikely, but that’s the question Apple needs to know.  I’m sure if this were a concern, Apple would have made a bid for ARM themselves.  I am concerned that Apple doesn’t have a good relationship with nVidia.  Hopefully, that’s a non-issue.

ArianneFeldry said:

Apple is stealing money from their users.
If you signed up through Apple, then bought V-Bucks through the App Store, and never created a full Epic account for use with other devices. You're screwed. Apple disabling Sign in With Apple leaves these users with nothing.
This is incredibly screwed up for Apple to do this, and completely sours me on the service knowing that if Mozilla gets their developer certification cancelled for whatever reason, my Firefox account is gone along with my Pocket account.
What a boneheaded move from Apple, this move only harms the users of the app, not Epic.

Apple is not stealing money from their users and they are not disabling Sign-in with Apple.  Don't be fooled by EPIC's propaganda.