[lvl102]

I feel this is a complete waste of leading tech: going into another slate of Apple products that do not need these advancements. I feel these slots should go to GPUs for AI and Apple is just hogging the capacity. It’d be one thing if Apple actually worked on AI softwares a bit and made it readily available to developers.

[joakleaf]

Regarding this: > It’d be one thing if Apple actually worked on AI softwares a bit and made it readily available to developers.

* Apple Silicon CPUs have a Neural Engine specifically made for fast ML-inference

* Apple supports PyTorch (https://developer.apple.com/metal/pytorch/)

* Apple has its own easily accessible machine-learning framework called Core-ML (https://developer.apple.com/machine-learning/)

So it would be inaccurate to say that they are not doing anything for the ML community.

[jjoonathan]

Apple pays a premium for the privilege of using their face to test the new node for brick walls.

Sure, sometimes it means they get the newest bestest chips a year early and the fans can party, but if you're an anti-fan just remain patient and I suspect one of these years you will be the one with reason to party.

[lvl102]

Which is my point exactly. They’re using market power to basically stymie competition. This is textbook anticompetitive behavior.

[Someone]

Is it? I think it’s using money, not market power.

Using market power would be threatening TSMC to shop elsewhere if they sell the same tech to others. I’ve not heard claims they do.

I also think TSMC is the one having market power there, but given that Apple pay’s a lot for them to build the tech, that may not be as large as one would think.

[bzzzt]

Investing into something better than your competitors make is competing, not anticompetitive.

[eliseomartelli]

I don't think this is the case. There are other semiconductor manufacturers, for example Samsung.

[bombcar]

If the M3 doesn’t have some AI capacities that are at least somewhat utilized by something (probably bad Siri) I’ll be highly surprised.

[JKCalhoun]

Everyone, please let me have "Bad Siri" for the name of my next band.

[bombcar]

I was watching a YouTube video and the guy said something like "but hey, seriously" and the audio on the computer muted and Siri appeared wondering what was going on.

So your first hit single should be about how important grass cultivation is to modern meat production: "Hay, seriously."

[hammock]

It’s the hardware version of the tech company “hire this smart person so they don’t go work somewhere else”

[lvl102]

It’s anticompetitive. DoJ/FTC should be all over this. They’re using leading edge for VR. Whatever they’re rolling out next month will go down as one of their biggest failures and it will be Tim Cook’s legacy.

[hammock]

DoJ and FTC have no jurisdiction in Taiwan. It would be WTO if anyone

[samwillis]

Stick that "GPUs for AI" in every new portable device for local efficient use and you have me won over though. I don't want my AI in the cloud, or on expensive desktop machines.

[pjc50]

Apple need to make another few hundred million iPhones every year.