Apple Appears to Have Acquired Intrinsity

[cmaier]

The story behind the two processors (the A4 and the single channel iPhone variant) make more sense now. Hummingbird is an Apple-Samsung-Intrinsity processor.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/872178/

No it's not.

 

[mdriftmeyer]

Jim blomgren an I shared a cubicle wall at Exponential. He taught be how to swear in the office.

We also wrote a paper together: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/l...0641683.pdf?arnumber=641683&authDecision=-203

Congrats. I have been meaning to subscribe. Perhaps I will and check it out.

 

[BTW]

Motorola and IBM failed to deliver desktop and laptop CPUs for the fast paced computer market. Now Intel can't deliver a good mobile chip platform to Apple's tastes. Apple is obviously in this for the long haul and Intel may eventually be booted from their vender list. The xServe and Mac Pro will be difficult to boot Intel from but the rest are just a matter of time.

 

[E.Lizardo]

$300 Apple Netbooks please.

Heh heh...oh wait..you're serious?

 

[E.Lizardo]

@Apple: Making your own ARM silicone is good but please expand this group to desktop GPU and CPU. Only a logical step. Will cost you about 15bil $, no big deal!

Yes,their desktops could use SILICONE implants!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicone

 

[fourthletter]

More tech talk from non-techies

Motorola and IBM failed to deliver desktop and laptop CPUs for the fast paced computer market. Now Intel can't deliver a good mobile chip platform to Apple's tastes. Apple is obviously in this for the long haul and Intel may eventually be booted from their vender list. The xServe and Mac Pro will be difficult to boot Intel from but the rest are just a matter of time.

If you think ARM chips are going to replace mobile Core 2010 in laptops you really don't understand CPU design.
The cross over between mobiles and laptops is coming but it isn't here yet.

 

[winterspan]

Motorola and IBM failed to deliver desktop and laptop CPUs for the fast paced computer market. Now Intel can't deliver a good mobile chip platform to Apple's tastes. Apple is obviously in this for the long haul and Intel may eventually be booted from their vender list. The xServe and Mac Pro will be difficult to boot Intel from but the rest are just a matter of time.

The only way this could happen is if:

1) ARM has incredible success on their next-generation (post-cortex) cores, including figuring out all the inherent problems that creep up after 32nm

2) Intel falls flat on it's face over the next 3-4 years

3) The software world fails to make the sort of advances that are necessary to truly take advantage of high power processors.

Basically, there would have to be a major stagnation of software application evolution so as to make a future ARM chip "good enough" performance wise so as to make Intel's far higher performing chips overkill (or perhaps the ARM offers so much better battery life that the tradeoff is worth it).

While I have a lot of faith in ARM, Intel is a formidable competitor with enormous resources. Their execution has been flawless since 2006 and their future mobile platforms (both low-power Atom and Core) will no doubt be very competitive.

Likewise, software is evolving quickly, with initiatives such as OpenCL, CUDA, DirectX Compute, Parallel .NET bringing efficient use of multi-core processors into the main stream. I wouldn't be surprised if we soon (next few years) see a critical mass of innovative new software that previously required too much CPU power. If this becomes the case, ARM will be in a tough position to compete with Intel on performance.

 

[sdjohnso]

April Fools Day?

Anyone find it weird that it "is" April Fools days he's using as his date?