Because it's a $1,000 phone and you should be able to have as many tabs open as you want.
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iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Use 20-Nanometer A8 Processor From TSMC
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Because it's a $1,000 phone and you should be able to have as many tabs open as you want.
It's still odd to see how much misinformation and mistrust are there regarding TSMC when they are much larger than Samsung in this area and even Samsung themselves prefer to use TSMC chips for their phones rather than their own. Then again prior to Apple's media coverage no one really read much about who makes the chips in their phones.
The significance of this move is that most iPhones will not have a single Samsung part in them. I wonder which media outlet will pick on this story first as a click bait item. But Apple is set to go with GloFo next generation, and thus potentially Samsung as well, so that story will short lived.
Yes, owning a fab is something Apple has shown no interest whatsoever. I was always wondering when GloFo will make the move and it looks like their time to shine has finally arrived. Will Intel make a strong move to do something with mobile chips too? I believe they are losing money badly there.
Because it makes it a lot easier to come back to something you found earlier.
My Note 3 has 16 Chrome tabs open right now.
TSMC FTW MFers!
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Wow. I bet that makes you feel extra super special.
And boy, I have my fingers crossed for you. I pray that you aren't one of the "half of Android users" who are at great risk due to the catastrophic privacy bug in Android's browser:
Android Browser flaw a “privacy disaster” for half of Android users
Bug enables malicious sites to grab cookies, passwords from other sites.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/09/android-browser-flaw-a-privacy-disaster-for-half-of-android-users/
I pray to the gods of the Internet and everything else online that you aren't affected.
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Because it makes it a lot easier to come back to something you found earlier.
My Note 3 has 16 Chrome tabs open right now.
Wow. I bet that makes you feel extra super special.
And boy, I have my fingers crossed for you. I pray that you aren't one of the "half of Android users" who are at great risk due to the catastrophic privacy bug in Android's browser:
Android Browser flaw a “privacy disaster” for half of Android users
Bug enables malicious sites to grab cookies, passwords from other sites.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/09/android-browser-flaw-a-privacy-disaster-for-half-of-android-users/
I pray to the gods of the Internet and everything else online that you aren't affected.
But I could open 10 tabs (or the equivalent) in 1999 on a 64MB computer with a crap disk... So, not sure you need that much memory to browse a few web page that barely do anything at all (like Tumbr or Reddit!). The problem is mostly Safari being a dog coupled with most web pages being coded in the most horrible way possible in general (90% of coding on the web is horrible). Yes, Ram may fix reloads, but it won't make these horror show code run quicker. They run like dogs on the desktop too.
I've worked on embedded systems, user UI and cluster backends, so this just puzzles me.
Um, if you read the article you referenced you see that Chrome users aren't affected - and the original poster did say "Chrome tabs"... so your prayer has been answered, apparently.
My Note phone and tablet are both on 4.4.2, and I use Chrome on both of them so I can keep bookmarks in sync with Chrome on my PC, so looks like I'm out of the woods on that, thankfully. I noticed at the bottom of the article you linked to that there was an update saying Google had patched the open-source browser- so hopefully the whole thing will blow over soon. But yeah, that does sound really awful.
The problem with that is you enable your direct competitors.
All things have costs, and sometimes, depending on the business plan, the expense is worth it.
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Because it makes it a lot easier to come back to something you found earlier.
My Note 3 has 16 Chrome tabs open right now.
Why would you continuously waste power to do that instead of reopening tabs when you actually need them?
Keeping tabs open isn't free. It actually costs power to do that.
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When you want things, it comes at the expense of other things.
In this case, your expense is the power costs.
Most people would rather have a longer battery life instead of 16 tabs.
Do people even surf the web on their phones? They'd rather use apps instead.
I wasn't, but I was not informed of this company. After reading more about them I'm fine.
Apple has been pretty consistent in this regard. They exert a certain amount of control over the manufacturing process, and they tend to absorb the design work on important components. You seem concerned with manufacturing and chip fabrication. So far Apple hasn't shown any interest of absorbing either of those things.
Excuse my ignorance, I don't usually open more than a couple of tabs but can't you use history for going back?Because it makes it a lot easier to come back to something you found earlier.
My Note 3 has 16 Chrome tabs open right now.
Doesn't open tabs use up memory?
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Not saying these people are but I have to believe there are samsung employees working on here?
As an iPhone user, I wouldn't waste my time going to android sites
and I know the iPhone doesn't do everything well but Im using an iPhone because it does the things I care about well.
I hadn't thought much about things like this for a few reasons. It's just a lot faster to hit the home button than it is to go into "tab mode" and swipe several of them first. Ram hasn't been an issue because the Note 3 has 3 gigs of it, and the battery lasts all day on a charge, open tabs or not. Once the people who upgrade from the 5 or 5s to the 6 plus get used to the new battery, I imagine some of their habbits will start to change because of it...
I only have a cheap phone but I try to save a bit of money anyway by keeping my open tabs on my MBP down to no more than three.
Haters gonna hate. Remember this is the first version of iOS 8 and if there are any performance issues I'm sure Apple will address those in the coming months with an update.
Relax. When Samsung and Global Foundries release the A9 at 14nm for 2016 devices people will be worrying about ARM in their Desktops. Let alone phones and tablets.
You are joking right? Many of today's top notch GPUs (think nVidia and AMD/ATI) are made by TSMC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6d7Fes-eHA
Finally a benchmark test, with the iPhone 6, the 6 Plus and Galaxy S5!
Thank you very much! Overall not bad...The 6S Plus needs to bring it next year. I am talking A9 Quad Core clocked @ 2.5Ghz. The benchmarks should get close to the 808 and 810 chipset.
Right now Snapdragon is the chipset to beat because of multi-cores used. A8 is way underclocked to compensate battery life.