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MaxxBot
Oct 6, 2003

you could have clapped

you should have clapped!!

socialsecurity posted:

The A-series is nice and all but it isn't "cutting edge hardware design", it's only real advantage vs the Tegra and Atom seem to be some battery life. Even then they didn't design the manufacturing process or anything they used the Samsung HKMG process, not to say they aren't using it well or they didn't make something good but I often hear about Apple is designing all this amazing cutting edge tech and I would really like to get to the bottom of it. To not derail this too much here's Anandtech talking about the A5 http://www.anandtech.com/show/5742/apples-ipad-24-also-uses-32nm-a5-s5l8942-soc

The A8 and A8X CPU cores are actually pretty impressive and they are faster and more architecturally complex than most other ARM-based designs. It's just that CPU performance in smartphones isn't exactly critically important right now so Apple's single core performance advantage doesn't really mean too much. There's nothing unique there architecturally but I would definitely describe them as "cutting edge."

MaxxBot fucked around with this message at 02:38 on Feb 27, 2015

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