Schmide
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Apple has a very unique solution as do many other ARM producers, but it's a very expensive monolithic chip with a super high tech socket and memory system. It works for them and to some extent AMD's APUs, but single chip solutions only get you so far. Just look at the way chiplets revolutionized the market. There will always be room for efficient single chip solutions, but they only get you so far and the cost of fabbing them is higher.
If you bought a system today or in the future would you be ok with one PCI-E 4x lane ? Because that's basically what you're getting with USB4/TB. Yes it's enough to do a lot of things, but once you try and do more than a few things at once, it will run into issues. Example extra 4k monitor + capturing a high quality video feed.
Why must ARM/RiscV take over everything ?
If you bought a system today or in the future would you be ok with one PCI-E 4x lane ? Because that's basically what you're getting with USB4/TB. Yes it's enough to do a lot of things, but once you try and do more than a few things at once, it will run into issues. Example extra 4k monitor + capturing a high quality video feed.
Why must ARM/RiscV take over everything ?
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