| To: OrionX who wrote (209212) | 7/24/2020 9:46:51 AM | | From: clochard | | | | | Intel's x86 is a complex and ugly architecture that infested the personal computer market only because they could produce them in large quantities and sell them well, in contrast to other companies with better ideas but poor execution. Intel's problems with 5mm are likely due to the Rube Goldberg complexity being too error-prone at these dimensions and speeds. |
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| To: clochard who wrote (209213) | 7/24/2020 2:14:53 PM | | From: Jeff Hayden | | | | | The "complex and ugly architecture" is likely more important than Intel's flailing around in chip geometry. I think Apple is tired of trying to get x86 chips to do what it needs. They really want to merge iOS, iPadOS and macOS, and find they can't do it with x86. Intel's geometry problem just helped them to start the conversion earlier. |
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| To: handyman who wrote (209208) | 7/24/2020 2:49:25 PM | | From: handyman | | | | Just when I thought I was out they brought me back in. Doubled down on Apple shares. They appear to be uniquely positioned to explode once the pandemic is controlled. People are flush with cash as another trillion plus is about to be helicoptered down. Super cycle looks like a real possibility.
China, lawsuits, and of course the raging virus are headwinds. I don’t need the money for years so it’s worth the risk. Funny how much money remains on the sidelines.
Somewhat off topic the seashore town I summer in shows no sign of the virus interfering as everything is open except indoor dining. Masks are few and people are out and about in great numbers. I am not one of them but I ride around like a voyeur in a strange land. |
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| From: handyman | 7/24/2020 3:19:46 PM | | | | | | Dam Apple just went green. Maybe I should be a day trader. On second thought I had my head handed to me when I did that back in the day.
One thing I see everywhere is that people love their smartphones and most of them in this country are iPhones. It is the one thing that people of all stripes have in common.Its become an extension of self.
Sad tp admit but it is the last thing I look at and the first thing every day and I’m an old dude. In case you think that’s disrespectful to my wife it’s the same with her. |
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| To: Stock Puppy who wrote (209214) | 7/24/2020 4:13:31 PM | | From: clochard | | | | Back in the day many successful and promising names dropped the ball. Burroughs, DEC, Motorola, TI, Commodore, Atari, and others failed their customers because they were full of themselves.
IBM, Intel and Microsoft won the wars through shrewd sales and reliable hardware but they cost the world billions by wasting their customers time with their inferior software ecosystems. I did software development in these environments because that's where the money was. |
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| To: Stock Puppy who wrote (209214) | 7/24/2020 7:00:56 PM | | From: Doren | | | | It was my impression that PPC/RISC chips Apple just ran too damn hot. I melted one in my dual gig, part of that was apple's stone stupid cooling design (exhaust on the bottom, chip on the top, video card blocking any cool air from getting to the daughter card) but they were hot enough to cook eggs. I'd avoid using it on very hot days. Speeds had gotten high enough Apple traded performance for cooler chips, particularly in notebooks which were replacing desktops in large numbers.
But my 2.8 i7 runs damn hot too, I worry about that a lot, and Apple under Ive seemed to be too obsessed with thinness to address the heat issue. I worry that dust bunnies inside my iMac block air flow.
It seems to me heat is still an issue, and I believe its a function of the size of the etchings so less nm means cooler. Plus its obviously going to be better for Apple to write code for one chip than two.
I would think that it had to be Intel's architecture that is holding them back. The chip foundries buy their machines from 3rd parties don't they? If so one foundry should be able to make the same sized channels as another unless there are just too many channels, zig zags and what ever lives at the nanometer level. |
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| To: Doren who wrote (209220) | 7/24/2020 9:42:13 PM | | From: clean86 | | | | I'm running Windows 10 on a bootcamp partition and during the day I'm constantly getting GPU overheating warnings.
Know I live in the tropics and it's hot but the cooling system should be better.
Most likely I'm going to have to build a liquid cooled PC just for my streaming stuff. |
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