alanm:

I'm pissed off at Apple, who have so much money they could easily do this. But they continue to use and overwhelm TSMC for chip manufacture for their devices. Not only that, they outbid everyone to get a much higher % of TSMC production capacity and have booked most of the 5nm and all of the 3nm output of TSMC. Therefore Apple are the real villains imo and are responsible for much higher prices of all electronics as a result.

You can blame Apple for a lot of stuff but not of this one. They are doing what any other company would do in their position, secure the product they need, nothing else. The real problem here is that very few expected this demand explosion for chips and now there are only an handful of companies capable of making this product.

Coming 2033!

A close relation of mine works in Intel fab (its near where I live too)... but my last two CPU purchases were still AMD - right now they are just much better (for my purposes - productivity, light gaming) 😳

Why do they publish such things? Info about great next version just around the corner kills the sales (Osborne Effect). I could justify such behavior only if their production and yields barely support current demand, or more likely to prevent people from buying AMD / jumping on Apple bandwagon. Also, I like switching to chiplets. This should improve the yields significantly. I hope that they've ironed out the connections, so there would be no greater delay, throughout, interference not thermal issues.

Ven0m:

Info about great next version just around the corner kills the sales (Osborne Effect).

There is always a great new version just around the corner. The actual Wikipedia article suggests that Osborne computers were made obsolete by competition, not by some premature announcement of new models - just like sales of Intel's 14 nm Comet/Rocket Lake CPUs are being killed by current 7 nm Zen 3 processors, rather than future 10 nm Alder Lake or 7 nm Meteor Lake parts.

Not really follow thing 8big + 8 little? are they drop HT in favor of 8 bigg(performance cores) for 8 small ( lower power cores) ? does that work out to be better or worse or the same as 8core + 8 HT ? Would assume the little cores are what are used when the system is idle which bring down idle power usages along with lite works stuff like web browsing??

g3d is still a very nice community imo,relatively. tpu is a circus,in comparison.they should have badges for trolling.

alanm:

I'm pissed off at Apple, who have so much money they could easily do this. But they continue to use and overwhelm TSMC for chip manufacture for their devices. Not only that, they outbid everyone to get a much higher % of TSMC production capacity and have booked most of the 5nm and all of the 3nm output of TSMC. Therefore Apple are the real villains imo and are responsible for much higher prices of all electronics as a result.

"They are successful so they must be stopped". TSMC should have quotas, or if the public sector officials had any brains should have split it to at least three companies.