Apple Spent $1B on the M3 Tape-Out, Says Analyst
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[1]: https://wccftech.com/m3-tape-out-costs-alone-cost-apple-1-bi...
To me that is the evolution of the internet as I see it currently. No more search, point and click ad driven nonsense but a personal research bot that saves you time and makes your life richer. An evolution sort of like the move from mircofilm to digital records.
It will be interesting to see the interplay between the corruption by human greed and bias on these bots and the logical basis that builds them. Hopefully logic will thrive over time.
May I suggest uBlock origin. If you are on a platform that does not allow effective ad blocking (chrome, safari, iOS) then consider switching to Android/Firefox.
It's perhaps slightly annoying as it come up with a delay that kicks in after a scroll, but on the scale of usual purposefully-misleading cookie consent (mis-)handling via dark patterns, it's not bad at all.
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/27/google-paid-26-billion-in-20...
He said that when they missed a deadline for tape-out, there was a blameless post-mortem and it did a good job of identifying the problem. And it was quite effective.
I asked him why he was surprised. Was Apple different? He’d been there almost a decade “Oh, I don’t know if there was a process. The idea that we could delay tape-out was unthinkable”.
That stuck with me for the difference between the two organizations.
Apple's insistence on releasing updates/upgrades to everything once a year will inevitably bite them in the ass.
In the past few years they've already started slipping deadlines for software (updates to iOS/MacOS in early fall, some advertised software late in the fall, or next year). It's only time before this happens to hardware.
Also, trashcan Mac was Apple's own self-inflicted damage, and nothing to do with Intel.
A lot of the issues with lagging updates to anything that's not iPhones are also precisely because there's no time and non resources to focus on anything but the next release.
My assumption is that the devices that aren't being updated regularly aren't big sellers. If they were then they would get more attention.
Seems like the latter may be even more important than the former in the long term, also in terms of attracting talent.
Apple has cash and needs to invest it, and Apple doesn't want to bring cash back to US (taxed) and the loans would stay on Apple's balance sheet as assets?
(In short, the last step in chip design before actual fabrication)
Apple claims the transition from TSMC's N5 to
N3 has resulted in a 30% boost in performance
for the M3's performance cores compared to M1's.
> Quite true, quite true. Apple is indubitably the creme de la creme, in a league of its own, miles above all. Who can possibly put a price on being first to a nanometer? It is worth any cost to obtain pure silicon perfection. The knowledge obtained from pioneering this new nanometer will unlock infinite possibilities for years to come. The future of the spaceship campus is very bright indeed.
The luxurious silvered and brushed, bespoke titanium surfaces glinting with speckled shadows of the grand dynamo within, tantalize all Is with eyes.
As we enter into the silicon's innards, we see the sleek, chic, perfectly placed caches, with an arc of 137.5 degrees, the golden ratio. As we zoom further, we see the ultra refined dielectric gaps, for the electron's pleasure. Lastly, notice the shimmered reflection off the single drop of isotonic natrian water. This is the tear of the worker that makes 3nm go boom boom. Shit, guys, did I drop the last part?
Pinnacle of human achievement in a way. The collective capabilities that had to be won in order to produce something like that. We are remarkable.
So you're suggesting that you get to decide what goes where? But you don't! Hahahaha :)
And your comment is more like Twitter than mine. Although if you're saying that "This is not Twitter" as in "This is not a place where you can speak your mind freely" then I disagree, you most certainly can!
It may not be liked by the community, as mine wasn't above, but that's OK. My comment was a genuine expression of the beauty, the majesty and fantastic accomplishment that those chips represent.
On another day, on another thread -- on another part of this thread -- it would have been a completely different story. Lots of upvotes instead of down. That's just the internet. So you don't get to decide quality based on votes.
But, I guess, if that had happened, you wouldn't have had anywhere to stick your little nasty, fake-deciding-for-others, would you? Heh :)
I hope you'll reflect and make better comments in future! hahahaha! :)