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by JumpCrisscross 875 days ago
> I wouldn't call what Apple did innovation - they followed predictable development trajectories - more integration

By this yardstick, nobody in semiconductors has ever innovated.
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timschmidt 875 days ago
Well to be fair there is an awful lot of copying and extending in place.
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JumpCrisscross 875 days ago
> to be fair there is an awful lot of copying and extending in place

That's how technology proliferates. The point is if the M1 wasn't innovative, that rules out pretty much everything AMD, Intel and potentially even NVIDIA have done in the last three decades.

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timschmidt 875 days ago
Did they do anything in those three decades that hadn't been dreamt of and projected out sometime in the 60s? Architecturally, sure doesn't seem like it.

I'd say a lot more innovation happens on the process side. Manufacturing.

All the architecture changes look like things mainframes did decades ago.

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