alt Hacker NewsIt's not baffling once you realize TSMC is the main defining factor for all these chips, Apple Silicon is simply not that special in the grand scheme of things.
Why do you think TSMC's production being in Taiwan is basically a national security issue for the U.S. at this point?
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ozgrakkurt • last Sunday at 5:23 PM
I don’t think there is a laptop that comes close to battery life or performance while on battery of m1 macbook pro
I hate apple but there is obviously something special about it
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> Apple Silicon is simply not that special in the grand scheme of things
Apple Silicon might not be that special from an architecture perspective (although treating integrated GPUs as appropriate for workloads other than low end laptops was a break with industry trends), but it’s very special from an economic perspective. The Apple Silicon unit volumes from iPhones have financed TSMC’s rise to semiconductor process dominance and, it would appear, permanently dethroned Intel.