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  • Apple expected to invest in Arm ahead of possible September IPO

    thamtham
    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.

    Easy mistake.  The answer is no.  You are getting AIM mixed up with ARM.   AIM (Apple-IBM-Motorola) partnered to design the PowerPC chip.  

    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.
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  • Apple Watch Series 9 will get a big speed boost from S9 chip

    thamtham
    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.
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