blastdoor

I suspect “a deal” is going to be made that will make these CEOs very happy. At the end of the deal, Taiwan will be under the control of the CCP and TSMC will be a Chinese company. China will have to pay a price, but it will be a price they deem worth paying.

I bought this display back in the spring. It’s a fantastic display. The webcam isn’t great, but it’s functional. Speakers and microphone are excellent.

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.

Cook and every other leader has to play the hand they’re dealt to serve the interests of those they lead. 

Spencer314 said:

lordjohnwhorfin said:

How does this compare to what’s available in the PC world, whether Intel/AMD or the more comparable ARM based Snapdragon?

The M4 Max score is quite a bit ahead of Intel CPUs on both single and multi-core performance on Geek Bench 6. 

https://browser.geekbench.com/processor-benchmarks

I'm sure NVIDIA GPUs are still faster, but it's a bit more difficult comparing them since they don't really run the same benchmarks. It's also pretty hard to compare AI engines for the same reason. 

It’s also ahead of the fastest non-server AMD chip, the 9950x:

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/8593852?baseline=8608283

the only sub-test where the 9950x wins is ray-tracing, because the 9950x has 32 logical (16 physical) cores, and ray tracing scales incredibly well with more threads. But ray tracing is an outlier in that regard. Otherwise, the m4 max wins big.

note that for multithreaded workloads that scale well, AMD’s threadripper and Epyc products are far ahead of Apple because they have a ton of cores. But they are also incredibly expensive and use a lot of power. For example: 

https://system76.com/desktops/thelio-mega-r3-n2/configure

you can easily configure a system that costs over $20k with a 96 core cpu.