You misunderstand. My point is to use latest tech to make phone power efficient instead of ever pushing more processing power to keep battery life status quo.
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iPhone 14 Pro Faced 'Unprecedented' Setback Leading to Removal of New Graphics Processor
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The report goes on to reveal how Apple's chip design team has been forced to contend with a loss of talent in recent years, with the company having lost dozens of key people to various silicon design companies since 2019, as well as interpersonal feuds and lawsuits with chip startups.
Article Link: iPhone 14 Pro Faced 'Unprecedented' Setback Leading to Removal of New Graphics Processor
Solution: WIN BACK key talent and KEEP them Apple.
You seem to do it well with Silicon Mac-Daddy Srouji and did for over 20yrs with Jony Ive (before he got bored), yet you get rid of talent like Forstall for a silly public apology and appease whiners. makes me wonder if Jony Ive being 'bored' was really the reason he left. Is the arc that Tim created and steers somewhat toxic to key talent that wants to push Apple further and harder too aggressive?
hmmm.
Edited: replaced “board” with the first “bored” not due to typo it was intentional to evoke board members and being bored with their over reach.
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Neither do I. I don’t even know anyone named Ray. Why would I want to track him?
It exists, but it isn't very fast in comparison to AMD/Nvidia cards on PCs, which is a problem for 3D/CAD apps and gaming.
I may be wrong, but doesn't the core design of these chips originate on the phone, and then get built up into the powerhouse versions in the M-series on laptops and desktop? If so, we need to see it here before we'll see it at the desktop, where it is greatly needed.
If I understand, probably the M3. That kind of sucks, because it means we need to wait until 2024 to see the desktop versions and judge their performance against AMD/Nvidia (which will have gained a bunch by then). At this point, I kind of wish Apple would just bring eGPU support back and some slots to a Mac Pro. Then if they do catch up one day on Apple Silicon, great.
Yeah, it sounds like the M3 is the chip many of us will need to wait for, where some of the bottlenecks might get worked out, and hopefully raytracing added on the GPU side. That's quite a long time to wait, though. If Apple has no stop-gap measure until then, the 3D and gaming communities are going to be pretty bummed.
Hopefully the new chip is ready in time for next year's iPhones.
Re-read his post. There was a typo in the article, referred to ray tracing as ray TRACKING.
Yeah I know. I mistated that one. I'm not always fully caffeinated when I read these articles. 🤣
A setback is a "reversal or check in progress." This is an objectively correct way to describe a last-minute removal of an innovative feature.
Apple have a big enough lead at this point to try and shoot for the moon and risk failure.
The fastest competitor devices are still 2-3 years behind.
The fastest competitor devices are still 2-3 years behind.
So using the iPhone like a tower PC? I could imagine that the young people use phones as small devices and not like a PC so they use the phones‘ display instead of connecting it to a keyboard mouse and TV.
Even though I'm a gamer, and I love
ray tracing on my PS5 connected to a
LG Oled C2 42❤, I'm not sure I want it on my iphone.
The battery drain and the heat it's not worth it, just as the article explained.
ray tracing on my PS5 connected to a
LG Oled C2 42❤, I'm not sure I want it on my iphone.
The battery drain and the heat it's not worth it, just as the article explained.
Wow, one more reason to be already excited for the iPhone 15 Pro Max (and its long waited telescope lenses).
Ray tracing is way too taxing. If current PCs, ps5, xbox series consoles struggle with many compromises made to get it to run, smartphones will have it way worse. I don't think mobile games need ray tracing, just my opinion. I have seen it on current gen consoles/PCs, and it is not that significant to be honest. Most of the time I look past it because I am so busy fighting something else in the game or running across, plus I use performance mode most of the time and disable RT to get my games to run at a solid 60/120 fps.
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Curious that they had to switch designs quickly, so that means they aren't planning far ahead. You'd think that Apple has at least three years ahead on product development, testing, ect, but with this story(and the mac pro problems) that's not the case. I'd say 18 month max on product roll out, Which is too fast. With all the virus problems Apple would have adjusted and replanned their line up. I would have overhauled their usual Yearly release schedule as it's not sustainable anymore. People don't want incremental lame updates but solid features and a reliable phone. Apple has over planned products that failed. Reduce, focus and give people what they want.
Some current gen games on the Xbox take up almost all of an entry level iPhone's storage. Unless you also think the future of gaming is also limited to Apple Arcade on the big screen, where if not streamed from the cloud would these games come from?
This isn't a religion, it's a business. Apple *has been doing great but it appears the vicious poaching of employees has started to affect their progress.
this plus the absence of M Extreme workstation SOCs makes me feel worried about Apple's leadership in ARM chips.
Very bad news for med term future
Very bad news for med term future
Not surprising at all. Microprocessor design at this scale is one of the engineering tasks where close collaboration is essential, especially with teams the size Apple would have working on this.
This is exactly why Apple is pushing so hard on teams being on campus rather than WFH.
This is exactly why Apple is pushing so hard on teams being on campus rather than WFH.
Don't worry - the feature only impacts your privacy if your name is Ray.