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  • 5G is a promise for the future, but isn't quite here today

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    About the only “good” reason I’ve seen for having 5G on a cell phone was that demo showing multiple angles of some sports game simultaneously. Even that seems at least a little silly since, personally, I can only really watch 1 angle at a time anyway. 

    Other than that, I still haven’t seen what 5G on a cell phone is good for or why anyone should be rushing to get a phone based on 5G alone. 
    The carriers want you to have low-band and mid-band 5G because a 5G cell site can service a lot more phones for the same frequencies. It makes rolling out more cell service cheaper for them. For us, it means less congestion with maybe modest download speed improvements.

    The wide-band hype is the bait. 
    CloudTalkindewme

  • Early 2021 Apple Silicon iMac said to have 'A14T' processor

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    h4y3s said:
    A silicon atom is only about 0.21 nm, so a 5nm process might be the limit for a while!
    Nah. TSMC already has put a press release that they will have early 2 nm ready in 2024. 

    ronnwatto_cobra

  • Samsung mocks Apple for removing power adapters from iPhone boxes

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    cloudguy said:
    Xed said:
    Samsung, of course, has a long history of trolling Apple for moves that it eventually copies. 

    Every… fricken… time.

    "All truthpasses through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident.” — Arthur Schopenhauer
    1. Not every time AT ALL. As I stated above, Samsung never adopted the notch, never adopted Force Touch and the vast majority of their phones still offer headphone jacks.
    Are you sure about that?
    XedrazorpitGG1watto_cobra

  • Apple debuts $699 5.4-inch iPhone 12 mini

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    $729 from T-Mobile. The $699 is a special offer from AT&T and Verizon. 
    james_caddy

  • Apple's Tim Millet discusses A14 architecture, future chip designs

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    mjtomlin said:
    Great read, but not much new stuff. Was hoping to hear more about Mac SoCs.

    Speaking of which... Who else thinks that with these upcoming ASi Macs we’re going to lose the ability to customize for performance? Today I can buy an iMac with an i5, i7, or i9, but only because Apple can just buy those from Intel. Will Macs move to a more iOS device type of customization, where performance differences are marked by generation, not variant (expect of course for the AnX/AnZ)?

    There are currently 4 Mac categories to design SoCs for: consumer desktop, consumer mobile, pro desktop, pro mobile. So that’s already at least four variants on the same generation SoC. Is Apple going to be able to make multiple SoCs for each category so that there’s a method of choosing more or less performance in CPU/GPU?

    Or is it going to be... Here’s an iMac... choose your display size, storage and memory, that’s it!
    I would expect two tiers within each of your 4 categories. The reason is yields on the semiconductor manufacturing. You bin anything that performs better at higher clock speeds for the top tier and keep the rest for the “normal” tier. It’s possible that you might also have more GPU cores on the top tier for the same reason. You fuse out a couple of GPU cores where problems are found for the lower performance tier. 

    Right now, only Apple knows how the 5nm process is going. It’s also possible that the yields are so good that they don’t have to do this. 
    GG1h4y3s