Recent content by The Hardcard

Ah, but you can’t avoid getting into the debate, because it guides your view and comments, that can Apple when do or not do whatever they want because their consumers will buy whatever Apple puts in front of them. That narrative is wrong. Apple consumers are typical consumers. Jobs started...

AMD wouldn’t be a backup plan for moving away from Intel. A walled garden has to be even more concerned about survival since the walls don’t contain the human consumers, they can all step out as they please. Apple needs a convincing reason to get the consumers to stay in, AMD couldn’t and still...

Has anyone ever seen any mention of the size of the Apple Silicon team. It seems possible that it one of the largest in the industry, they make a large range of fairly advanced ICs.

The challenge for Qualcomm is a large portion of people tethered to Windows also cling to x86.

Wow. Is this webpage rendering incorrectly? There are no comments on the first die shots of M4 Pro and M4 Max? Apple did the same chop as M1 and M2 and they simply disable a minimum of two cores on the Pro. Even more interesting though is that the edge of the Max chip is again redacted on the...

I don’t know if current GPUs have changed the game, but for many years while GPUs were appreciated for time constraints, if you had the time top quality renders were done on CPU. For both video and 3D work. People wanted powerful GPUs for workstations for humans to design the scenes as smoothly...

The AI market is far from nonexistent. Peruse the LocalLlama subReddit, Youtube, X, the Medium website among others. This is is a rapidly growing community already tens of thousands in size. And Apple is making measurable revenue. The persistent talk about LLMs in the last several chip launches...

Memory bandwidth. The M3 Ultra has the same 800 GB/s bandwidth as the previous Ultras.

An earlier Digitimes rumor/report stated that Apple planned to use the same chips for the upcoming server and consumer devices just as the current servers use the same M2 Ultra as the Mac Studios (though likely with a different PCB and case). While the Baltra information just talked about...

Not to mention the M5 is also already in production. The Ultra might be a stopgap chip. Apple has been working on the M5 Ultra for a while, but it involves a lot of new technology and was projected to possibly not appear until sometime in 2026. That was going to make for a huge lost opportunity...

Corporate boards care about money and money only and they don’t care where it comes from. Thousands of corporations in the US alone own companies that have nothing to do with their core business. As long as the money comes in everybody’s happy. But of course that’s all besides the point which...

I don’t think it will continue to be challenging. At least not moreso than Qualcomm and the other players. Any company or individual can enter any field if they can hire the people who know how to do it. Apple did that. If McDonald’s hired 1500 cellular engineers and managers each from...

Trying to get their money and designed it for them are two separate things. Viagra was not developed for erectile dysfunction, but they are taking all that money. Companies will take anybody’s money if they are giving it away. I don’t believe that either the CPU or GPU alone is maxed out at...

No I don’t think it’s odd. Gamers are constantly trying to game on hardware not designed for gaming and willing to spend large amounts of extra money to do it, for reasons I don’t fully grasp. There are even some people buying Macs just to game on, not for any Mac specific purpose. It’s pretty...

I don’t think Strix Halo was ever for gaming and is not now. It’s going to cost more than alternative gaming solutions. People who buy Strix Halo for gaming are wasting money. The main point of this chip is unified memory and GPU access to a huge pool of RAM. Fire Range is the gaming line.