To put this in perspective, with this and TSMC matching towards 14A / 1.4nm we could have machine that is roughly 2X the performance of Macbook Pro with M2 Pro at the thickness and size of MacBook Air by the end of this decade.
I am also hoping this will be more reliable than current Fanless cooling solution which tends to degrade after a few years.
What do you mean by that? I've had both PCs and laptops that were completely passively cooled and there was never any degradation.
Lots of different cooling solutions, the issue is there isn't a perfect one that works for all wattage while having no drawbacks. Either it's excessive noise, limited performance, large size, high price, complicated maintanance and so on.
The lofty claims they make are suspicious, I want to see this in action on a high performance chip without any other cooling.
Thermal expansion/contraction between cooler and chip itself "pumps" out the thermal paste which over time degrades cooling performance. If the system is running 24/7 its probably not as noticeable because you don't get the frequent heating/cooling you'd see on a device that gets power cycled often.
Nothing a repaste job wont fix.
That is already available and used in some Laptops. Look up Honeywell thermal pad.
The problem is as always, cost.
Edit: to answer my own question it looks like Apple uses thermal paste but the cooling in the M2 MacBook Air looks extremely flimsey to the point of being almost non-existent. I doubt it will be affected much at all by this.
E.g. https://thermalmanagement.honeywell.com/us/en/products/therm...
Yes. Glue. Paste is for when you might want to one day separate part from heatsink. If you don't care about repairs, it is perfectly reasonable to just glue them together with thermal adhesive.
The immediate thought looking at the design was "this probably has lots of tiny little channels, and those channels are going to get clogged with dust."
Time will tell, I'm happy someone is pursuing this either way.
besides compiling code, training models, or rendering videos, what else really benefits from this level of performance increase? like what "need" is there at consumer/professional levels? obviously better efficiency is always good for a ton of reasons. just curious if there's a "need" where we are wishing "man, wish CPUs/GPUs were 2x as fast!"
what doors does this open that aren't already open? i feel like i wouldn't really notice if my CPU doubled performance wise tomorrow.
Oh, and gaming of course. Which has driven most consumer level performance improvements. Laptops haven't gotten 4k gaming sorted yet and already people talking about 8k.... and have you seen the size of the newest NVidia cards? Literally the size of a brick and often in need of scaffolding due to the weight.
I don't think, Apple will sit idle until then.