What I wouldn’t give to see him present on stage just once...
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Apple Says A13 Bionic Chip Was Designed With Performance-Per-Watt Focus
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I wonder if he's actually a chipmaking engineer or if he's on the PR/Marketing side?
"In a feature for WIRED, Om Malik sat down to discuss the A13 Bionic chip in the new iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and iPhone 11 Pro Max. "
maybe I am all jaded but I didn't learn anything new on this "Exclusive" story that we didn't get on stage - yea Apple chips are ridiculous fast and efficient - we already knew that.
maybe I am all jaded but I didn't learn anything new on this "Exclusive" story that we didn't get on stage - yea Apple chips are ridiculous fast and efficient - we already knew that.
Nope. Apple A* chips aren't based on ARM Cortex designs. They implement the ARM ISA, but don't use ARM's designs.
This is all very well regarding the new batteries, however, I have just read an article that you can make graphene like batteries and capacitors that work better than lithium ion batteries with carbon sheets, and for just a 1/1000th of the cost, with , wait for it.., hemp stems. No joke. I sure hope Apple are looking into this, now that would be courageous! Google Hemp carbon makes Supercapcitors super fast.
Because they aren't. Most vendors use ARM's design, but some including Apple don't.
The Apple A5 was the last one to use an ARM Cortex design. The Apple A6 and beyond are custom designs.
It would be nice if our iPhones would be like a full Mac Mini when we dock to a monitor, keyboard, and mouse when we get home or in the office. I bet that will be possible in the next decade. We may get that speech from Apple about "Macs have been leading a secret double life...(again!)".
Still posting these lies? It appears you have no understanding whatsoever of what an ISA is vs a micro architecture.
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There are various implementation of that (Ubuntu Touch had it, Microsoft Windows Phone had it more recently, known as "Continuum", and most recently, Samsung has been doing it as "Dex").
Cynically, I think Apple would just rather you buy two devices.
Pardon me - but is this right:
"Text to Speech"
Or should it be "Speech to Text"
I mean - text to speech isn't such a big deal I don't think - unless it really tweaks pronunciation, or something I am not aware of. I believe it is Speech to Text that needs the computing horsepower.
Or are these terms used interchangeably?
I'm curious.
"Text to Speech"
Or should it be "Speech to Text"
I mean - text to speech isn't such a big deal I don't think - unless it really tweaks pronunciation, or something I am not aware of. I believe it is Speech to Text that needs the computing horsepower.
Or are these terms used interchangeably?
I'm curious.
Amazing how Apple's chip folks just keep hitting it out of the park. Compared to Qualcomm's 855 this thing is a beast, but an efficient beast.
Right, except Apple modifies their designs and ends up stomping all over those base ARM designs you see in Androidville, thank goodness you're here on iOS and posting on Mac Rumors, eh?
Right, except Apple modifies their designs and ends up stomping all over those base ARM designs you see in Androidville, thank goodness you're here on iOS and posting on Mac Rumors, eh?
I didn’t know he was now a chipmaking engineer. (autocorrect tried to put in chipmunk
) I had wondered where he disappeared to within Apple. The last I knew, he was hired as some sort of consultant, I think. And here I was, thinking all these years they’d hired him to keep him quiet.😂All this will do is add fuel to the fire for all the conspiracy nuts.
The haters were sooooo upset when Anandtech did a deep dive on the A7 and found it to be far more advanced than anything on the market. They accused Anandtech of being an Apple shill because they just couldn't accept the A7 was that good. This continued on with all subsequent Apple A Series processors - they’re not that good, Anandtech is just biased in favor of Apple.
Then it was announced that Anand Shimpi left Anandtech to go work for Apple which was all the proof the conspiracy nuts needed to back up their original claims of bias in favor of Apple.
Seeing Anand Shimpi back in the spotlight regarding Apples latest A13 is going to bring this all back to the forefront once again. Just wait until Anandtech does their analysis of the A13.....
Phil. Your next priority is to move the voice recognition off the servers and onto the device. That would eliminate all this contractor-govmnt spying / oops I mean quality control.
Phil. Your next priority is to move the voice recognition off the servers and onto the device. That would eliminate all this contractor-govmnt spying / oops I mean quality control.
Well, my guess is they are hard at work on getting Apple Ax fast enough to do more Siri stuff on-device.
Not just that. All so that they can get rid of Intel faster on their Laptop and Desktop Computers.
All week battery life isn’t far fetched if the next $899 MacBook include A13X SoC. In fact, long overdue for the ARM architecture to arrive on Mac lineup...
If Apple was two years ahead of everyone on efficiency then they wouldn't be last on battery performance.
More likely iPhone 11 Maxi Pro with 25% bigger battery will catch up with competitors on the next comparison video based on iPhone Xs Max 5h 48m result +25% battery increase so ~7h 15m.
Sounds more like so you can open facebook as fast as last year, but run it at a fraction of the power consumption giving an overall boost to device battery longevity...
Ever check out products from Intel? Skylake, Kaby Lake, Cascade Lake, Coffee Lake, Cannon Lake, Whiskey Lake, Comet Lake...
Automatic speech recognition (Siri, dictation) is done by sending the recordings up to a server, and therefore requires little work. Remember that big recording transcription scandal?
Text-to-speech is correct. Old text-to-speech programs mash special recordings of a human together which causes unnatural sounds. New "neural" text-to-speech use a computational neural network that's trained with recordings, but otherwise generates all the sounds itself. This method is used in iOS 13.
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