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name "silicon" is so stupid
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This site and forum attracts we nerds who over speculate and analyze every aspect. A behavior of which I partake in and endorse. Let’s face it tho, the majority of MacBook consumers are going to buy the smaller silver one or the heavier one with the big screen. You think I’m kidding? Hang out in an Apple store for a bit.
It's going to continue to be used because it's still useful: it's the family name for Apple's chips.
I really don't get this cringey line. "Silicon" has been generic shorthand for chips for, well, as long as silicon based microprocessors have been around, where do you think the metonym "Silicon Valley" came from? I think I made this point before in this thread, but people have been using "It's $VENDOR_NAME silicon" in the tech industry to discuss chips for longer than I've even been alive, Apple is basically using what was general conversational usage as a architecture line name, it's a phrase that makes plenty of sense.
Words and names have meanings. If you don't understand them, please learn what they mean, or just don't use them.
Why would they? It makes zero sense and has no relation to PowerPC.
Especially given that PowerPC is a trademark owned by IBM and is a reference to the POWER architectures, which are still in use in a variety of ways (none of which have anything to do with Apple's ARM implementations). POWER10 and Power ISA 3.1 (the current evolution basically of PowerPC) were just introduced this year!
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