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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 potential customer after another. Perhaps with 266 even Apple, the most patient and faithful, figured enough was enough and walked away?
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- Post #9,906
- Thursday at 2:17 PM
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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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 data) are "first class objects". They can be defined easily, used as arguments easily. It's a LANGUAGE feature, it makes no claims about the hardware. 2. There...
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- Post #9,897
- Wednesday at 1:05 PM
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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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 most obvious (though not the only) such cost is how many intel initiatives have been sunk over the pats few years because they were not supported by developers...
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- Post #9,876
- May 29, 2025
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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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 of micro-segmentation that other companies engage in, with time wasted differentiating each segment. Consider the M4; superficially the Pro looks different from...
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- Post #9,873
- May 28, 2025
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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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 will be larger. And things like Maps are a hybrid that require both sides to be useful.
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- Post #9,851
- May 11, 2025
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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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 becomes harder to judge how "real" something is. Slight tweak to what goes in an iPhone? Of course that will happen soon. Apple version of something they have...
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- Post #9,843
- May 10, 2025
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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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 consumers?
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- Post #9,842
- May 10, 2025
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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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 year? Sure, why not? Volumes are low enough that TSMC capacity is not an issue, while there's also value in reminding people that Vision Pro isn't dead (and...
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- Post #9,837
- May 9, 2025
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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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? Remember those: "it's impossible for Apple to create a competitive GPU/modem because <mumble mumble I don't understand how they work so obviously no-one else can...
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- Post #9,836
- May 9, 2025
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread

Why wouldn't you? Especially if the machine doesn't need to touch random internet addresses, quite possibly none at all. If ALL you need is a media server and backup NAS, you can block it from the entire external internet.
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- Post #9,797
- Apr 27, 2025
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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This has evolved from "Apple won't allow me to do what I want" to "Apple doesn't sell it in the color I want". You are clearly not serious in your claimed desires - if you were you'd now be asking tech questions about how to do this, not finding ever more foolish reasons why what Apple does...
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- Post #9,796
- Apr 27, 2025
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread

Apple GIVES YOU THIS TODAY, FFS. Not with an aTV but with a mini. Buy a 10 yr old mini, connect drives to it, and you are golden. It's so tiresome to keep hearing this whining from people who are so clueless about what Apple machinery can do right now. You do know, don't you, that you can run a...
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- Post #9,790
- Apr 26, 2025
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread

Neither I nor Apple are psychic. We especially cannot understand the desires of someone who simultaneously claims that USB4 or TB bandwidth is too slow for their needs AND that cloud storage somehow matches that same need. Look I have no idea what you have in mind. The average NORMAL person...
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- Post #9,786
- Apr 25, 2025
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread

Are you unaware that Apple automatically includes pretty good RAID SW? (And has done so for decades.) I've used it for over 20 years and never had a problem (as opposed to the occasional horror stories I hear from people running dedicated NAS'). So collect as many drives as you want, hook them...
- name99
- Post #9,782
- Apr 24, 2025
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread

We have Private Cloud Compute and XCode in the Cloud as the first two steps to this. I wouldn't be surprised if a next step is announced at WWDC. WWDC in two months...
- name99
- Post #9,777
- Apr 22, 2025
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking

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