Sure. Who likes dealing with a company that pays you billions of dollars for services. I'm shocked Samsung put up with Apple and their paying them billions of dollars kinda nonsense for this long!
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TSMC Begins Trial Manufacturing of Apple A6 Processors
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Sure. Who likes dealing with a company that pays you billions of dollars for services. I'm shocked Samsung put up with Apple and their paying them billions of dollars kinda nonsense for this long!
You can't be serious. You don't just replace that kind of income stream.
I know a lot of you are obsessed with insisting everyone is wearing "Apple colored glasses" but I'd love to know what glasses you use that reduces a several billion dollar income stream to "easily replaced."
Personally I can't wait until Apple makes everything. Just think of it, we will all be the same, living in euphoria. Apple won't be different anymore, and there will be no more fanboys and Mactards.
But we love Apple so much, we want to give them all of our money. We will all work for Apple and buy from Apple and put our money in iBanks.
Why are you bringing sense into the discussion. We love Apple. Apple is great. Steve is the ONE. We don't like Apple's competitors or anyone who says anything bad about Apple.
I know you're under the impression you're parodying people who have the audacity to own Apple products (oh my god - they pay money for things that they like! So weird...). In reality you're just parodying every silly little Apple obsessive that seems really really upset over how other adults choose to spend their money. Every time one of you guys tries to write something "funny" like this, it always reads the same.
Even a die shrink would do wonders.
However I'm really thinking Apple will shoot for much better performance at the same power point. Most likely they will implement a much better GPU to drive pixel doubled screens.
Since this would be a two node drop they could easily halve power at the same performance level. That is just an estimate as they could actually do better.
However I'm really thinking Apple will shoot for much better performance at the same power point. Most likely they will implement a much better GPU to drive pixel doubled screens.
Technically I think you are mistaken.
Actually A5 sucks in a number of ways. For one it is built on an old process tech and as such is big and power hungry. Second the GPU is not really as capable as it should be and needs a big boost to drive resolution double screens. On top of all of that the chip needs a serious update to memory bandwidth or serious caching to support the GPU to drive those resolution doubled screens.
Mind you I'm not saying that the A5 is a bad chip. It is far from that. It is not however extremely powerful as you imagine.
Actually I suspect adding cores and maintaing current clock rates would use less power than going to 1.5 or 2GHz. Remember back in the day when Intel went dual core for laptop CPUs. Part of the reasoning was that there would be better performance at a given clock rate thus a given power level.
Actually A5 sucks in a number of ways. For one it is built on an old process tech and as such is big and power hungry. Second the GPU is not really as capable as it should be and needs a big boost to drive resolution double screens. On top of all of that the chip needs a serious update to memory bandwidth or serious caching to support the GPU to drive those resolution doubled screens.
Mind you I'm not saying that the A5 is a bad chip. It is far from that. It is not however extremely powerful as you imagine.
Everyone else is.
But apparently you have some insider info in your alternate reality where up is down, that defies actual facts. Do tell.
Except that he's right. It has nothing to do with spending more money on something you like, it has everything to do with the attitude that Apple can do no wrong and every decision they make is the best decision for everyone involved. I've spent the same amount of money on some of the same Apple products as many other people have but I don't swear a blind allegiance to Apple.
No, A4 wasn't a Samsung license and Samsung doesn't have a CPU architecture to license out, they all license the CPU architecture from ARM. A4 and Hummingbird shared the same core design because the core was modified by the same company, Intrinsity, which is now owned by Apple. Currently both Samsung Exynos and Apple A5 license the A9 CPU from ARM but their other parts, video core, memory bus, etc, are different.
Indeed. AFAIK Samsung is the new comer in this business and TSMC is the giant incumbent. Yet many on the internet almost seem to think TSMC is a dinky little business with little experience or production scale because they know Samsung but don't know much about TSMC.
My prediction is Apple will source A6 from Samsung and TSMC, maybe half half. Like how ipad screens are sourced from samsung and LG. Extremely silly for Apple to go from only 1 source of such critical part to another only source. But who knows?
Question is, how easy would it be for Samsung to repurpose the A4/5 factories into making something else? Answer to that will be quite useful in predicting what samsung/apple will do.
Question is, how easy would it be for Samsung to repurpose the A4/5 factories into making something else? Answer to that will be quite useful in predicting what samsung/apple will do.
Even the most diehard Apple fan must know that just by the law of averages Apple can't always be right.
I would hope that people who have enough money to spend thousands on iphones, ipads and Macs are intelligent enough to figure out why they buy Apple products.
Since 1984 I have witnessed plenty of clunkers in Apple's line up.
They'll get things right enough over time and more than others for me to buy. The ipad 3 is probably close to a buy now.
Anybody who blindly swears by just one company isn't paying attention !
If something better comes around we'll switch! Not that time yet
Well, it will be interesting to see what the A6 is really used for... (next ipad revision or addition I imagine).
If Apple moves away from Samsung that will be a big change for them (for Samsung). Huge amount of money shifting to somewhere else... the ripple effects will be interesting... oh the wonders of economics!
If Apple moves away from Samsung that will be a big change for them (for Samsung). Huge amount of money shifting to somewhere else... the ripple effects will be interesting... oh the wonders of economics!
To the limited extent this is true, it is being tested every day by sales results. Apple is growing more rapidly than anyone in large cap tech or retail, so at some level the degree to which they are souring the milk is low.
Please keep us updated on your monthly reaction to this reality. That way I can watch less TV and still be entertained.
Rocketman
Samsung makes some good TVs.
But a Sony TV is still a Sony TV. That hasn't changed.
A4 in the ipad had 256MB RAM. A4 in the iphone 4 has 512MB RAM. They can choose how much RAM the package has. That being said, there's no reason to have over 512MB of RAM in iOS really given the way it multi-tasks. Sure, some people complain they can't have 9+ tabs open in safari without having to reload, but that's a pretty marginal case.
Really, I believe it was SJ who walked out of IBM meeting after telling them that it would be great when they would be done with them.
I believe Apple also screwed over motorala when jumping over to IBM then screwed IBM when jumping over to Intel and I would not put it pass Apple to screw intel and going somewhere else.
Or you have the reports of the past of Apple getting companies to commit to making a huge amount of nand memory to help flood the market with those just to get them at a lower price.
Apple has a reputation of being a hard customer to deal with and chewing up and spitting out suppliers. When you are top dog and when times are bad yeah you can get away with it but when times are good you get bumped down the list and other times they raise the price on you so yeah if they are going to commit to it it is going to cost Apple.
Remember there are other customers other than Apple who are trying to buy parts so they just go to them and leave Apple behind.
It's not clear what additional improvements we'll see with the A6 chip, but one possibility is the incorporation of the latest PowerVR Series 6 GPU which promises a significant graphical performance boost to the current implementation. The A6 chip has been previously rumored to be shipping in 2012.
This makes me think is it going to be better waiting for the 2012 iPhone as the new graphics tech sounds very good.
This makes me think is it going to be better waiting for the 2012 iPhone as the new graphics tech sounds very good.
Please keep us updated on your monthly reaction to this reality. That way I can watch less TV and still be entertained.
Rocketman
Stay tuned.