Recent content by johnsonwax

Don't forget Apple taking over their uncompetitive radio group and making a competitive radio.

How would such a tariff make sense? Everyone would move assembly out of the US, and there's not much here to start with. It's not like you can put 100% on anything with a semiconductor. You can't tariff your way out of this problem without creating 5 new problems. If the federal government wants...

The problem is that Intels problems are real, and time is running out. The US seems to not care if we lose Intel.

Yes they are because they're never going to happen. Everyone knows they're never going to happen. Japan and the EU said as much. Tim Cook can clear that $500B without any changes to how they do business. TSMC isn't going to do anything different either.

Well, Apple can do that. They've returned $1T to shareholders, they can invest $600B in the US. But I'll tell you a secret - all of the investments into the US that Trump is getting in his deals - from Apple, from TSMC, from the EU, from Japan? They're all meaningless. Trump knows they're...

I should note there is a whole benchmarking scene in Factorio. It's a bit more complicated with 2.0 and I don't have a good sense of where things are under 2.0 (just haven't focused much on that version) but there is no Mac version of the benchmark tool.

Because engineering isn't free. And the idea that ARM could even scale into that space is a rather new one. Apple releasing a 64 bit ARM mobile processor was 12 years ago and everyone lost their damn mind over that. Be honest, how many people here thought that when Apple announced a move to...

I'll see if I still have it. The blueprints weren't exactly useful in other contexts.

In all fairness, Factorio hardly touches the GPU and is mainly constrained by single thread performance and memory speed. The X3D does give meaningful benefit to the game, but their 4080s or whatever was top of the line GPU 18 months ago did nothing (not that they expected it to). So like, it's...

Story: Last year I did a big online Factorio event (I'm retired so I can spend my day playing video games, thank you very much) and a bunch of players get together with me to try and figure out why my design isn't performing well on the 7950X3D that's hosing my instance. It's running 60FPS on...

Scheduler issue here as well - typically on MacOS once a process has threads moved to P core, they don't fill up E cores unless they are given a thread QoS to require them to. Lots of documented examples of apps going from all E cores/no P cores to all P cores/no E cores. MacOS is really...

Well, they're 35 years in now without the pull. No sh*t. And they're paying ARM a license, and ARM distributes that design cost across all of their licenses. Sure, they've been growing at Intel's expense. Look at Intel once they stopped growing. Are there more specialized platforms and SKU...

Why wouldn't it last? Presumably ARM by now has figured out how much the license need to cost to keep it going and there's zero marginal cost on delivering it, so scale keeps that engine going - that's the Moores law point I keep making. The problem is on AWS side to achieve the necessary...

That's purely an economic not technical question. And I think the reason why you're looking at Amazon and not AMD for that is because Amazon is better able to square that economic question than AMD is. This is why I've previously said elsewhere that x86 is a Moores Law dead-end, because Amazon...

I mean, as noted above, to Apple the distinction between P cores and E cores is loosely user interaction/non-user interaction, which adds another wrinkle to the 'what is the point of this benchmark' if it's in-the-wild execution on the Mac would be on an e core because if you're batch encoding...