People on macrumors think that the today and past is the future. Up to until now porting big and heavy apps to iPad has been of lesser interest. But with more processing power and memory, this will certainly change. Also peripherals will be possible to adapt to the iPad, the 3dconnexion space mouse already has a wireless model, and it should not be too hard to make a bluetooth version which should easily be paired to the iOS device.
But of more interest is not the iPad, but what the A-series chips could do to the Mac. Now there is much to be said about Geekbench and how well it compare over processor architects, and there is more to computing than 25 distinct smaller programs and operations. For other complex operations the benefit of the advanced chipset instructions in the newest x86 CPUs are important. But the fact is that the increase in performance of the Apple-designed CPU is remarkable and if they are able to continue with this pace this might well be a game changer for several fields and reasons.
Intel and their CPU division must be worried the most. Here it is important to also look at the other ARM chips, not just the A-chips. And it is the biggest indicator of how Intel have been lagging in gaining power. If you look at snapdragon and Samsung CPU they are also gaining at a higher pace. For Intel CPUs unless you put your computer in the freezer and do some insane overclocking the increase in CPU-power for the last 3-4 generations are minute.
So how will this affect the competition? If Apple can put out a laptop or workstation/desktop with A-chips and they are much more powerful, then they will be able to massively gain market share. While it should not affect the server-market as Apple seem to have no interest in, in other fields this will eat into the big other players.
Anyway I think this should hopefully give the kick in Intels ass so they finally are able to focus properly on their r&d. Also Qualcomm will certainly add more resources to their ARM-unit. I think for customers it is competition that should benefit us all, even the non-Apple users.
But of more interest is not the iPad, but what the A-series chips could do to the Mac. Now there is much to be said about Geekbench and how well it compare over processor architects, and there is more to computing than 25 distinct smaller programs and operations. For other complex operations the benefit of the advanced chipset instructions in the newest x86 CPUs are important. But the fact is that the increase in performance of the Apple-designed CPU is remarkable and if they are able to continue with this pace this might well be a game changer for several fields and reasons.
Intel and their CPU division must be worried the most. Here it is important to also look at the other ARM chips, not just the A-chips. And it is the biggest indicator of how Intel have been lagging in gaining power. If you look at snapdragon and Samsung CPU they are also gaining at a higher pace. For Intel CPUs unless you put your computer in the freezer and do some insane overclocking the increase in CPU-power for the last 3-4 generations are minute.
So how will this affect the competition? If Apple can put out a laptop or workstation/desktop with A-chips and they are much more powerful, then they will be able to massively gain market share. While it should not affect the server-market as Apple seem to have no interest in, in other fields this will eat into the big other players.
Anyway I think this should hopefully give the kick in Intels ass so they finally are able to focus properly on their r&d. Also Qualcomm will certainly add more resources to their ARM-unit. I think for customers it is competition that should benefit us all, even the non-Apple users.
