AMD's most important product ever - Ryzen 9 4900HS

[LurkerJ]

Bofferbrauer2 said:

LurkerJ said:

It's a bumpy road, but if anyone is going to make it work, it's Apple. Not because they're special or anything, it's just because they happen to have a comprehensive line of products that, at this moment in time, that generates excitement among consumers and developers (not gaming devs for sure), from tiny watches, small mobile phones, to tablets and laptops and large desktops . Don't get me wrong, I LOVE my iPad but I don't understand all the jizz that tech bloggers throw its way each time Apple releases a software update... but hey, it's working for them (and for me as a consumer), and developers are on board, let's see how that goes. 

Apple don't make CPUs anymore, they make APUs and soon enough they will have their own 5g modems. I am personally excited to see where they're going with all of that, even if it fails. Competition is good. 

I don't see Apple putting the ARM Chips into their Apple Mac Pro and iMac Pro lines of Workstations anytime soon unless they put a kiloton of those into one. As in, at least 64 CPUs (32 big, 32 LITTLE) to make up for the performance differences between Intel's X86 and ARM. And that's with continuing using AMD GPUs.

In other words, they woud get too big to be worth it for the big models right now. For reference, the A13 is about 98mm² large with just 2 big and 4LITTLE CPUs; current Intel and AMD mobile chips are around 160mm² in size, Intel's 8 core Coffee Lake is 176mm², Comet Lake around 202mm² and the HCC Cascade Lake in the Mac Pro around 485mm². So even if we remove the GPU, an A13 blown up to 64 cores would probably result into a bigger chip than the HCC Cascade Lake despite the latter being produced in 14nm while the A13 is produced in 7nm.

ARM-based Air lineup and bringing back the discontinued Macbook would be a good start.