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2022 iPhones and Macs May Feature 3nm Chips
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I believe they have a 5 year contract or something...
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so it will be able to read those hashed rainbow tables with minimal slow down. What a time to be alive.
unless if they have a very good air cooling design in the 2021 macbook pro, i have a feeling that the m1x chip is gonna run very hot. the m1 chip might've gotten away with the cooling, but you can't make a cpu 75% faster and a gpu 2-4x faster without huge drawbacks in temperature.
1nm is the limit. Go below that and weird quantum anomalies start happening.
For Intel, Moore's law already ended. For Apple, it is still going great. But not sure how far do we keep on going.
If you look very closely at Apple's updates for the iPhone, they give you just enough to compel you to upgrade from the prior year's model but not so much that you hold off from upgrading for years.
For instance:
Of course no one is forcing users to upgrade on a yearly basis, but Apple's update schedule seems (to my eye at least) to be staggered in such a way to incentivize enthusiasts to remain in a perpetual state of yearly updates (and giving Apple $$$). And to sweeten the pot, Apple allows you to trade in the old Phone, defraying the otherwise high cost of perpetual yearly upgrades.
For instance:
- iPhone X - Ground breaking design, no home button. But just one size, smallish battery. Definitely wanted to replace the older model.
- iPhone Xs Max - Similar design as the X, but the larger Max phone with a bigger battery made sense to upgrade.
- iPhone 11 Pro Max - 4 GB RAM, but supposedly better cameras than the Xs.
- iPhone 12 Pro Max - New flat design compared to the rounded body of the predecessors. Also finally got 6 GB RAM yay, but no 120 Hz display. More RAM served as an incentive to upgrade.
- iPhone 13 Pro Max: at least 6 GB RAM maybe more, and rumored 120 Hz screen, but 5 nm chip, possibly 4nm, but no 3nm and still a notch, albeit smaller, and possibly a bigger battery. An incentive to upgrade given the 120 Hz display (if true).
- iPhone 14: 3 nm, and possibly the notch is going away for a hole punch design similar to the Samsung s21. New design + 3nm chip will be a strong incentive to upgrade.
Of course no one is forcing users to upgrade on a yearly basis, but Apple's update schedule seems (to my eye at least) to be staggered in such a way to incentivize enthusiasts to remain in a perpetual state of yearly updates (and giving Apple $$$). And to sweeten the pot, Apple allows you to trade in the old Phone, defraying the otherwise high cost of perpetual yearly upgrades.
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According to various reports, the average iPhone update cycle for average real-world consumers is 3-4 years, depending upon what you read. It's not even close to every year, and it's not even every 2 years. Sure, there are people who do upgrade every year or every two years, but if the average is every 3-4 years, that means many people aren't upgrading even at 4 years.
BTW, while you say "enthusiasts" are encouraged to upgrade every year, that's not really true. The people buying every year represent a very small minority of the iPhone market. As such they aren't Apple's primary target market. The point of offering incremental improvements every year is so that there is incentive for the primary target market - those with 3-4-5 year-old iPhones - to buy the current model as opposed to the previous model.
Battery life probably. The M1 is designed to run Macs and iPads with much larger batteries. The performance of the A-series SoCs is already much better than the rest of the industry so there is little reason to sacrifice battery for more performance or other features of the M1 like Thunderbolt. Apple ships 250 million A-series SoCs every year. There is no reason to not have a custom SoC just for phones.
Erm, rainbow tables are precomputed, reading time is minimal. If you are talking about BruteForcing or cryptoanalysis sure, that is the case.
As long as it's snappy on Facebook and Instagram, people generally don't care who built what kind of processor.
I am in love with the M1 MBP, but I will say that I am concerned.... iPhones get slow after a year or two. Mid to high level Macs have not had that problem, historically. If this changes, that's bad.
I am in love with the M1 MBP, but I will say that I am concerned.... iPhones get slow after a year or two. Mid to high level Macs have not had that problem, historically. If this changes, that's bad.
There was an article in IEEE Spectrum back in April 2020 which discussed this very topic.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/experts-invent-a-new-way-to-track-semiconductor-technology
https://spectrum.ieee.org/experts-invent-a-new-way-to-track-semiconductor-technology
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Good article but it seems to be from April 2020 not 2021. The date is not very important except that there apparently hasn't been any progress on changing the marketing to use this scheme.