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Apple expected to invest in Arm ahead of possible September IPO
lorca2770 said:Please, correct me.
I have been following Apple since 1984 (Mac 128 ߘꩦlt;/p>Was it not S Jobs who at some point, during the tough times, sold ARM (since it was Apple’s company)? I think I understood it was Apple Reduced Memory. It was one of those developments that were undermined by Microsoft with the permanent: “stop the presses we are coming with something better”. So many Apple developments were drowned by, at the time, all powerful MS.
Please advise.
ARM is/was a British company. In fact, it started as a contest on show on BBC (or was it iTV) in the late 70s on how to make a low powered computer chip.
Personally, I think Apple will eventually end up switching to RISC-V chip. In fact, if they're not already developing a chip...they are...for sure. 10 years, they will come out with their own design. -
Apple Watch Series 9 will get a big speed boost from S9 chip
I couldn't disagree with everyone on here more. In fact, its the processor that has kept me from upgrading from my 4.
I want my watch to do more things. Yes, battery life is important but that comes with a better, faster, more efficient processor.
My 4 year old Apple Watch works fine right now NOT because the processor is soooo amazing...it's because apple had to "de-feature" it and focus on none processor upgrades over the years because there was simply no space available for the lower NM (5 or 3) chip processing. You see Apple Watch has a 10nm designed chip...
Basically said, the Apple Watch process is running on iPhone 8 tech.
New Samsung watches are now running on 5nm chips...
To answer your questions...Apple is moving it to the A12 processing (7nm) which will increase speed up to 15% and 50% energy-efficient.
Which would mean the knew watches will be only 35% faster than my five year old Apple watch 4.
Unless they have a major sensor addition, I'm waiting for 5nm processor. That should roll with 90% speed bump and a roughly 120% increase in energy-efficiency.