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    name99 replied to the thread Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread.

    Makes one wonder if the h.266 team overplayed their hand. They have been pushing relentlessly through 264 and 265, alienating one...

    Thursday at 2:17 PM
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    name99 reacted to Doug S's post in the thread Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread with Like.

    "[A19 Pro] Estimated to be 4000+" That doesn't sound like someone with inside information, it sounds like someone making a guess -...

    Thursday at 2:15 PM
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    name99 replied to the thread Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread.

    1. "Tensor" simply means that rank-n objects (ie objects that are a rectangular plane of data, or a cube of data, or a 4-D volume of...

    Wednesday at 1:05 PM
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    name99 reacted to Doug S's post in the thread Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread with Like.

    Intel was fine when they mainly had SKUs based on speed & power, and later on number of cores. Oh there were times like 486sx/486dx...

    May 31, 2025
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    name99 replied to the thread Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread.

    Aggressive binning and lots of SKUs sounds like a great plan IF there isn't a cost to these behaviors. Problem is that there is. The...

    May 29, 2025
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    name99 replied to the thread Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread.

    It's also possible that they manage to be so productive because they are all pulling in the SAME direction. 1. We don't see the sort...

    May 28, 2025
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    name99 reacted to Doug S's post in the thread Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread with Like.

    Knowing how many datacenters and how many they rent space us doesn't tell us anything about what percentage of iCloud data lives on...

    May 12, 2025
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    name99 replied to the thread Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread.

    For NOW. The whole point is that's going to change... XCode in the Cloud is the small case right now. Some Siri. Private Cloud Compute...

    May 11, 2025
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    name99 replied to the thread Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread.

    Of course there are. I've discussed many of them in my PDFs. The big problem is that as you get further from existing hardware, it...

    May 10, 2025
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    name99 replied to the thread Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread.

    Of course they are for servers! I don't get why people seem to feel that's not a legitimate target. How many DGX's is nVidia selling to...

    May 10, 2025
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    name99 replied to the thread Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread.

    "Anything" is a strong term. For example, could Apple use N2 for the M5 and/or R2, to be released in Vision Pro before the end of the...

    May 9, 2025
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    name99 replied to the thread Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread.

    Oh, people have no IDEA how ambitious Apple's plans are! What we're seeing right now is a repeat of the GPU and the modem stories...

    May 9, 2025
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    name99 reacted to johnsonwax's post in the thread Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread with Like.

    Report that Apple will split iPhone releases into a pro/foldable and non-pro/se into a standard fall/spring schedule. That would create...

    May 4, 2025
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    name99 reacted to LightningZ71's post in the thread Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread with Like.

    In fairness, people are forgetting the topology of ultra SCSI and how we used that for years for RAID arrays. If you're worried about...

    May 2, 2025
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    name99 reacted to Doug S's post in the thread Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread with Like.

    I'm always skeptical about leaks this far out. They don't tend to have that good of a track record, even from "good" leakers. Could be...

    Apr 30, 2025

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