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  • Microsoft unveils Surface Laptop Studio, Surface Pro 8, Surface Duo 2

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    crowley said:
    Microsoft previously said that the reason the Surface didn't have Thunderbolt ports was for security reasons.  I wonder why they changed their tune.
    Thunderbolt 4 fixes the security issue they had with Thunderbolt 3 regarding direct memory access (DMA).


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  • Apple launches iPhone 13 with A15, smaller notch & more

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    crowley said:
    I feel like it's a little telling that they're saying 50% faster than rivals chips.  Only a couple years ago they wouldn't even mention rivals, they'd only be comparing Apple chips to the previous Ap ple chips.
    This was a post I just saw by a semiconductor analyst.  Make of it what you will



    This is the article he's linking to:  https://semianalysis.substack.com/p/apple-cpu-gains-grind-to-a-halt-and
    Andrei at Anandtech also brought attention to this as well (https://www.anandtech.com/show/16934/apple-announces-iphone-13-series):

    Here, they’re claiming that the new A15 will be +50% better than the next-best competitor. The next-best competitor is Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888 – if we look up our benchmark result set, we can see that the A14 is +41% more performant than the Snapdragon 888 in SPECint2017 – for the A15 to grow that gap to 50% it really would only need to be roughly 6% faster than the A14, which is indeed not a very large upgrade. Apple also didn’t comment on any new ISA features such as Armv9/SVE2, so it seems that the CPU doesn’t feature it?

    Back in early 2019, Apple had lost their lead architect (Gerard Williams III) and a portion of their CPU design team when several of the team went on to found and work at Nuvia, which was acquired earlier this year by Qualcomm. While I’m not certain, the time gap here certainly could match and the new CPU time to market, and be the first signs of that talent loss and team reshuffle. As a note, Apple went on to hire Arm’s lead architect Mike Filippo, likely working on a new CPU family.

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  • Microsoft Surface Pro announcement event is on September 22

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    vedelppa said:
    likely a week after Apple announces the new iPad - I mean, who cares? why don't they announce it in like March or before Christmas, why at the same time as Apple? Exactly in the Danger Zone! :D
    Microsoft announces Surface hardware at different times throughout the year. However, they've traditionally done it around the fall of each year, when new Intel chips are often released. In this case, a new Surface Pro might be using Intel Alder Lake; 6 Golden Cove performance cores (2 threads each) + 8 Gracemont efficiency cores (1 thread each), LPDDR5, PCIe Gen5 and up to 96 EU Xe-LP graphics.


    vedelppa

  • 2022 iPhones, Macs could boast 3nm chips

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    Targeted production in the second half of 2022 would be too late for iPhone use. High volume manufacturing has typically started in April or May for previous iPhone chips.

    Apple's next iPhone will more likely use 4nm (N4 - an enhanced version of N5), that will go into volume production in 2022 (this is also at TSMC Fab 18, their main 5nm production facility).

    MediaTek and Qualcomm are likely to be the first to use TSMC's 3nm (N3) in smartphone chips.

    Use of a 3nm chip in a macOS computer might be possible in the later part of 2022.
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  • Apple to remove popular DOS emulator for iOS from App Store

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    bleab said:
    This is straight up why I use Chromebooks instead of iPads: being able to install and run executable and arbitary code is an unconditional requirement. I mean for cheap stuff like the $80 Wal-Mart and Amazon Kindle Fire Android tablets that I just use as e-readers and for Netflix yeah fine doesn't matter. But anything that I pay real money for and use for work or school? Needs to run arbitrary code. That is why that "the tablet that can replace your PC" iPad commercials never applied to me, and the A12Z and M1 being faster than anything below an octacore Intel Core i7 didn't matter either. Can't run what I need means can't use it.
    Apples and oranges ... a Chromebook is a (sorta) laptop, whereas the iPad is a tablet.

    Mac laptops are not restricted in this manner.
    Chrome OS tablet


    iPadOS tablet
    Logitech Folio Touch - Keyboard Case with Trackpad for iPad Pro 11-inch 1st 2nd 3rd gen and iPad Air 4th gen


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