The first benchmark numbers are in for the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. How does it compared to the Apple A17 Pro found in the iPhone 15 Pro? What is the increase...
Cool. Apple now gets to fire back. That’s the game here but it between arm and arm neither being intel or amd and I so here for it. Good night intel and amd.
Apple is on a slightly better node than Qualcomm, there is no firing back anytime soon unless Apple pulls a rabbit out of their hat with insane architecture improvements, which is unlikely considering a lot of Apples best SoC engineers left the company years ago, hence the situation they are in now. They could spend more on larger dies, but that will eat into their margins.
Similarly one of the biggest reasons the M1 was so good compared to Intel and AMD back in 2020, was because Apple was and is buying the best nodes. With TSMC shitting the bed, those node handicaps will shrink for x86 just like they did for Qualcomm. If Intel surpasses TSMC with 18A in 2024, like many analysts expect, then it’s a role reversal where Intel finally has a node advantage after 10 years of trying to compete with a disadvantage. Plus Windows on Arm is an awful experience. Unlike Apple’s transition to Arm, where they got developers to support it and Rosetta 2 is pretty good, Microsoft has failed for over a decade to get Windows on Arm to be an equal to x86-x64 Windows.
I don’t really see any of this changing sales at all. If you want iOS you buy an iPhone. If you want Android, you’re probably getting Qualcomm. If you want Windows it’s 80% Intel and Nvidia and 20% AMD. The benchmark leaders may change, but that won’t convert people to Android or WoA, just like Apples silicon didn’t convert people to iOS or Mac.
Cool. Apple now gets to fire back. That’s the game here but it between arm and arm neither being intel or amd and I so here for it. Good night intel and amd.
That’s an ignorant comment of the situation.
Apple is on a slightly better node than Qualcomm, there is no firing back anytime soon unless Apple pulls a rabbit out of their hat with insane architecture improvements, which is unlikely considering a lot of Apples best SoC engineers left the company years ago, hence the situation they are in now. They could spend more on larger dies, but that will eat into their margins.
Similarly one of the biggest reasons the M1 was so good compared to Intel and AMD back in 2020, was because Apple was and is buying the best nodes. With TSMC shitting the bed, those node handicaps will shrink for x86 just like they did for Qualcomm. If Intel surpasses TSMC with 18A in 2024, like many analysts expect, then it’s a role reversal where Intel finally has a node advantage after 10 years of trying to compete with a disadvantage. Plus Windows on Arm is an awful experience. Unlike Apple’s transition to Arm, where they got developers to support it and Rosetta 2 is pretty good, Microsoft has failed for over a decade to get Windows on Arm to be an equal to x86-x64 Windows.
I don’t really see any of this changing sales at all. If you want iOS you buy an iPhone. If you want Android, you’re probably getting Qualcomm. If you want Windows it’s 80% Intel and Nvidia and 20% AMD. The benchmark leaders may change, but that won’t convert people to Android or WoA, just like Apples silicon didn’t convert people to iOS or Mac.