Is it me, or is the Apple Silicon marketing speak focusing almost exclusively on accelerators? Yes it does encoding and camera and ML and has a better GPU than Intel iGFX and accelerates crypto. We get it, it's a mobile SoC, that's how those work *at all*. Low power too.
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Now if they can come up with something that competes in the same class as a PS5 SoC (to give a baseline x86 design by a competent company, because Intel have been failing for years), *then* things will get really interesting. But today is not that day.
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What we're seeing right now is Apple stretching the mobile/tablet market segment hardware, which they've gotten *very* good at, to encroach on Intel's ultraportable/embedded segment, which they've sucked at. Logical. Now can they go higher? We'll see.
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Oh yeah, and One More Thing. Rosetta 2 *necessarily* uses more RAM than native execution. You need to keep the ARM JIT/AoT code/caches *and* the x86 code around, and probably some overhead on redundant JITting too etc. Now consider the 16GB limitation on top of that.
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Very smart people have been doing high-perf emulation (yes it's emulation, *every* modern emulator uses dynamic translation and has for over a decade) for a long time. There is no such thing as "transpiling an x86 app into ARM". It's just not a solvable problem.
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Rosetta 2 will be fast at some things, and suck at others. This is always the case with emulation. If you can hit the fast path on inner loops and get the SIMD right, then those things will be fast. If you get unlucky and hit some silly corner case, performance will tank.
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and no nbase gigabit ethernet on the mac mini
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It’s their first try and their current customer doesn’t need it. Let’s just see what they deliver in v3
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