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AppleInsider said:

… nanocrystals made from semiconductor material called quantum dots …

blastdoor said:

The Tech Crunch quotes seem oddball to me. 

I guess if you landed on Earth in a pod yesterday you might not have a monitor, keyboard, and mouse handy. But I'll bet a very large share of adults over the age of, say, 30 have a monitor, keyboard, and mouse already. That's not a small market.

programmer said:

chasm said:

netrox said:

Exactly why do we need to keep adding more CPU cores when most creative oriented applications would benefit from having more GPU cores? 

Not that I’m the last word on this topic, but to put this VERY simply CPUs do math and GPUs take that math and manipulate pixels. Graphics are created through math, so more CPUs enable GPUs to do their job better.

More GPUs are needed when you have really really large screens/more screens. More CPUs are needed when you need more graphics.

Sorry, but that is wrong.  GPUs excel at doing math at high memory bandwidths... but they basically need to be able to do the math in parallel, and the application has to be written specifically to use the GPU.  CPUs are the default place for code to run, and are generally better at doing complex logic with lots of decisions, randomly chasing through memory for data, and doing less "orderly" computations.  To leverage multiple CPUs, the application has to be written to do that and it isn't the default.  Code typically starts its existence on a single CPU, then the programmer improves it to take advantage of multiple CPUs, then they might improve it further to either use the CPU SIMD or matrix hardware, or re-write critical pieces to run on the GPU.  These days it is also quite common for application programmers to use libraries (often Apple's) which do things like leverage multiple cores, SIMD, matrix hardware, and GPUs.  Creative oriented applications are often graphics or audio heavy, and those things can usually take advantage of all this potential hardware parallelism as long as they are optimized to do so (and the good ones are).

The question of CPUs vs GPUs on the SoC is a complex one.  Many applications don't use the GPU at all, except for the UI (which hardly needs any GPU at all) but are optimized for multiple CPUs... adding more GPU for those applications gets you nothing.  Even GPU-heavy applications can also benefit from more CPUs, in some cases.  Ultimately though, the GPUs tend to be memory bandwidth limited, so scaling up the GPU beyond what the memory bandwidth can support gets us very little.