> impressive performance, battery life, temperature of the Apple M1
From my perspective Apple just made it so non Apple hardware couldn't get fast CPU's for another year.
M1 is a 5nm CPU that is faster than 7nm low power CPU's, and uses less power than 7nm high power CPU's, but to me it isn't obvious that it will perform significantly better than others 5nm low power CPU's when those hits the market. Others 5nm will hit the market once Apples contracts to use all 5nm fabs runs out, but before then we are stuck with only Apple having that tech.
You might think that this situation sounds great, but it doesn't look that great to me. I'd prefer if Apple didn't work to lock in hardware components and tech as they do.
Ok, but I still don't see how M1 performance is evidence that this kind if integration is a great thing? Rather M1 is evidence that excessive money from one area can be used to expand your influence in other areas. Rather, the "tight integration" here has nothing to do with technical bits but instead economic, Apple can guarantee funds for them since they have money from other parts of the stack. Funds of that scale doesn't exist for many other companies, except Google. Google could also do something like that and compete with Apple, which might be why Google is now entering this space?
> Ok, but I still don't see how M1 performance is evidence that this kind if integration is a great thing?
Because humanity and every company now has access to 5nm infrastructure? Because Apple created the greatest marketing campaign TSMC ever benefited from? Because Apple proved that custom silicon design is no longer fools gold and can be profitable and competitive? Because Apple showcased that more instruction parallelism, heterogeneous core types, co-processors, etc are all beneficial design choices and every competing company can take advantage of them? Because Intel is now competing with TSMC? Because AMD and Intel might lose the monopoly on x86 and need to compete? Because Rosetta 2 and universal binaries pave the way for Apple to invest and eventually transition to RISC-5 or …?
Do you not see any of these points as great? If not, why not? I’ll use your reasons to try to come up with better examples.
From my perspective Apple just made it so non Apple hardware couldn't get fast CPU's for another year.
M1 is a 5nm CPU that is faster than 7nm low power CPU's, and uses less power than 7nm high power CPU's, but to me it isn't obvious that it will perform significantly better than others 5nm low power CPU's when those hits the market. Others 5nm will hit the market once Apples contracts to use all 5nm fabs runs out, but before then we are stuck with only Apple having that tech.
You might think that this situation sounds great, but it doesn't look that great to me. I'd prefer if Apple didn't work to lock in hardware components and tech as they do.