alt Hacker NewsSo, they’re going to use a more power hungry process for the low end devices? The whole point of the Air and SE lines was that they were lightweight and compact.
Watching a company at that scale completely lose its own plot is depressing. Did they replace Cook with an LLM that compacted its context one too many times?
Edit: This is a bad look for intel too. How are Apple store employees/nerds going to explain this product line bifurcation? “This low end Apple gizmo is a hot mess because it has Intel Inside. Also, it’s $50 more than last year. MAGA!”
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> So, they’re going to use a more power hungry process
This is exactly what Google did when their Pixel SOCs were fabbed by Samsung.
Performance and power efficiency were both substandard compared to TSMC but the chips were cheaper.
Is the 18A process more power hungry?
'Kuo said Apple plans to utilize Intel's 18A process, which is the "earliest available sub-2nm advanced node manufactured in North America."'
What makes you think they are going to be more power-hungry than if Apple manufactured them itself?
> How are Apple store employees/nerds going to explain this product line bifurcation?
I really doubt most Apple customers care. A few do, but they've long been the minority.
What is the more power hungry process?
M5 uses a 3nm process
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmcs-3nm-update-...
but Intel is proposing using their fab configured for the "earliest available sub-2nm advanced node manufactured in North America", according to the article (and from searching outside).