witeken
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What I would give them credit for is their consistency. No Qualcomm we'll-use-off-the-shelf-ARM-this-year-because-we-have-nothing-in-our-pipeline-and-our-own-arch-next-year stuff. Just the old school 40% improvement per year, even if we can actually increase clock speed by much more but-hey-we-still-need-some-headroom-for-next-year.A10X should give a preview of what's to come with A11. I expect A10X to clock the CPUs at significantly higher frequencies, and I expect that with A11, Apple will be able to bring both a frequency improvement as well as a "tock-like" improvement in perf/MHz.
Apple's chip team is insane. And I mean this in all of the good senses of that word.
But you can also see it in their R&D. Developing chips has ballooned their development costs. (Or is all of that going to the iCar?)
But don't keep dreaming. Physics will stand in Apple's way.
BTW, if you see an exponential curve into the $10B like this, doubling in 2 years, you wonder if it's gonna level off or if Apple planning to be at $40B R&D in 2020 ?
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