Scott Thomas
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The author was saying that Intel should be worried, not that they are in imminent danger.
Yes, the A10 Fusion is not a replacement for a Xeon, yet. The danger is if Apple starts to build bigger chips with more of these cores, unencumbered by the thermal performance needs of a handheld device.
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Steve Jobs’ dream was a factory where sand was loaded in one side, and computers were shipped out the other.
Vertical integration at its best.
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Intel has smaller, faster processes than TSMC who currently fabricates the A10, so it could only get faster.
https://daringfireball.net/2016/09/a_series_benchmarksAlso… I took note that Apple used a new naming convention for the A-series chips. The iPhone 7 has the A10 “Fusion”. My immediate thought was that would allow for other strata of chips for different purposes. So maybe we’ll see an A10 “Unobtanium”.
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We’re not alone in the speculation on what’s happening to the Mac. The feeling is that the long delay is a sign that some big change might be on the horizon.
One idea is that Apple will go with an AMD SOC (System on a Chip)
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/08/26/amd-socApple is developing their own ARM based CPUs at a breakneck pace. What if they got Intel to fabricate them in their foundries?
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/08/26/intel-armOne way of thinking about it is that the original 68K Mac lasted about 10 years. PPC lasted a bit longer, say, 12 years. So now we’re at the 10 year mark for Mac on X86. It’s already being talked about. Maybe we are going to see Mac move to ARM, if the history is any guidepost?
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Does anyone else remember the Ultimatte demo videos from the 1980’s. Amazing stuff back in the day.
Maybe Black Magic Design will revive the comics with Professor Warhol.
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A CMI in an FPGA. That’s really cool. Too bad I already have a Kurzweil K2000 I don’t know how to play. 🙂
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Also… Ross buys Abekas and Gen Arts Sapphire is now under Boris. What’s next, Ross releases the Immix Video Cube 4K?
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I’m looking forward to the revival of the Fairlight Video Instrument
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My local Apple store is both in “retirement central” and a university. One day I was there, the employees were excited that Wilford Brimley had been in earlier.
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From everything I’ve read, and from talking to people who were in the industry in the 1970’s, Xerox was just as poorly managed, if not more so than Kodak. Check out “Dealers of Lightning” https://www.amazon.com/Dealers-Lightning-Xerox-PARC-Computer/dp/0887309895
Met a guy in Vegas who worked for IBM in the 1970’s. You mention Xerox and he goes off on a tirade on how stupid they were. They did make money on the patents on the laser printer, but politics on the east coast kept them from fully benefiting.
Reminds me of Avid. I heard stories back in the day that the Tewkesbury engineers were rather protective of their domain.