That was SO three posts ago. Apple Silicon bad because Risc-V
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Intel Alder Lake vs. Apple M1
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That was SO three posts ago. Apple Silicon bad because Risc-V
The goalposts shift so fast it’s hard to keep up.
Can’t the detractors stick to the same notes? Just say “Apple Silicon bad because no games” or “Apple Silicon bad because no Windows”
Forefather of AS is using Risc-V so what does that tell you? Risc-V is the future and to get there you need tools now running on x64 to build towards that future with AI that will automatically build future 2.0. Interesting to see how HPC Ascalon Risc-V turns out.
It's too efficient, I mean, don't you just really miss being tethered to an outlet?
Hold on, let me reread this post after dropping acid so it makes sense.
@cmaier didn’t you have some automated tools to design circuitry already? Remind me how that works.
I’m confused. Is Risc-V the future, or is it Intel now they have their “amazing“ Alder lake chips? I assume you mean everything accept apple silicon is the future?
Tough times for Apple.
It's Intel because they're on the RISC-V consortium now! So in the future Intel will abandon their x86 architecture (which is superior to Apple) for RISC-V which is also superior to Apple Silicon. That must be it, right?? Right?
I think he means Intel is the future because they’re investing into RISC-V now and maybe possibly theoretically are working on fpgas which are better than cpus or gpus (somehow the last 50 years of chip design missed this fact) and are more flexible than asics. Then they will build an AI that’s better than humans (and the one true messiah of cpu design, Jim Keller) at designing chips and Apple loses to Alder Lake and Intel because of that.
In any scenario, Apple loses. Guess I’d better cancel my order for a Mbp and buy an Intel Laptop.
So putting all the pieces together I believe Centos 7 will run on riscv and produce skynet.
nothing, other than they think it will be fun to work on a new architecture that doesn't have a bunch of high-performance implementations already.
Thanks that’s cleared it up. Worryingly, I tried to run Centos 7 on risc-v and it didn’t work. Is it the future or the past?
Are you Jim Keller? Am I? Can we rename this forum the Jim Keller news thread?
I downloaded the most recent centOS, took me 5 minutes from start to finish, so don’t worry about my time. Will try your obsolete centos when I’m having a coffee break tomorrow
Wait, is Keller designing anything that will go inside a consumer machine? From what I can tell it's some expansion cards for desktops, and cloud services. It's like they're going after a completely different market and won't actually be competing with Apple in any way.
That does not seem quite right. Apple is in the box, and it is both included and excluded until we open the box. Now, where did I put my torx 6?
Two or three years had gone by so it was time for a new job again?
Let’s see… if Wikipedia is acccurate…
DEC 1982-1998
AMD 1998-1999
SiByte 1999-2004
PA Semi 2004-2008
Apple 2008-2012
AMD 2012-2015
Tesla 2016-2018
Intel 2018-2020
Tenstorrent 2020-?
You can still buy 16" Macbook Pro x64 through resellers so it'll be Apple's undoing.
Jim is no forefather of Apple Sillicon, he left in 2012. The only remotely close AS chip to M1 is the A12X/Z and that came out in 2018. 6 years later Jim left.
Didn’t you know? Anyone who has ever worked at apple is a forefather to AS. We should see what Woz is doing.