Apple A17 Pro SoC Within Reach of Intel i9-13900K in Single-Core Performance (www.techpowerup.com)

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An Apple "iPhone16,1" was put through the Geekbench 6.2 gauntlet earlier this week—according to database info this pre-release sample was running a build of iOS 17.0 (currently in preview) and its logic board goes under the "D83AP" moniker. It is interesting to see a 16-series unit hitting the test phase only a day after the unveiling of Apple's iPhone 15 Pro and Max models—the freshly benched candidate seems to house an A17 Pro SoC as well. The American tech giant has set lofty goals for said flagship chip, since it is "the industry's first 3-nanometer chip. Continuing Apple's leadership in smartphone silicon, A17 Pro brings improvements to the entire chip, including the biggest GPU redesign in Apple's history. The new CPU is up to 10 percent faster with microarchitectural and design improvements, and the Neural Engine is now up to 2x faster."

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[-] ramble81@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago

Others have come out but they never grab a foothold because you literally have to recompile everything. Some companies have even included their own compilers and optimizers but then you run into other packages and binaries that don't work on anything but x86. One company literally wanted to give us a new 256-core system they were prototyping for a large scale web farm, but we ran into too many package issues that we couldn't convert over to their architecture. And that was with Linux.

[-] geosoco@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yup. Some like DEC even offered on-the-fly binary recompilation from x86 to Alpha in windows, back when windows NT was available on 4 or 5 different processors (PowerPC, MIPS, Alpha, x86, and I think eventually Intel's original x86 64-bit replacement.

x86 has evolved so much in the last 40 years that it's still able to keep a foothold for PCs.

I'm curious what's about to happen moving forward as they continue to increase transistor densities and shrink die sizes.

[-] nehal3m@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Apple succeeded at switching over to ARM though, they’re thriving.

[-] wax@lemmy.wtf 12 points 1 year ago

They have more direct control over their software ecosystem though

[-] nehal3m@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Absolutely, an iron fist. But that worked out well in this case.

[-] wax@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 year ago

Yup, smart move for sure

[-] z500@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

They've already switched architectures twice before, so they've got some experience at it.

[-] Ocelot@lemmies.world 2 points 1 year ago

Apple definitely has a way of doing what is right sometimes, and forcing the industry's hand to move forward.

.... Sometimes. Sometimes this definitely backfires, but not this time.

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