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'A19' and 'M5' Chips Discovered on Apple Backend Server (www.macrumors.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Not surprising. It’s not as if companies only start on the next version once the current one is out. Things like this need planning years in advance. I think I heard on the ATP podcast that Apple are already planning and working on what the M7 will be.

Just because they are testing the M4/M5 doesn’t mean it’s ready, or can be fabricated at scale for an acceptable cost just yet.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

M5 lol. We ain’t even at M3 yet.

[+] [email protected] -28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s like when I read a book in the 90s that explained planned obsolescence in a child-friendly way.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When should have we stopped developing new processors and computing architectures? I just want to make sure that we never improve upon existing tools to avoid that pesky planned obsolescence.

Pentium? Core Duo? Core i7? AMD Ryzen? Apple M1?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Never, but the yearly iterations are there to keep people upgrading. Same thing with cars.

Some people need the newest hottest thing when they could upgrade every 5-7 years (10-15 in the case of cars) and be fine and companies cash in on that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

It was roughly 2 years between the M1 and M2 which is a longer time between generation refreshes than Intel and about on par with AMD. The A series updates roughly as often as the top tier Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 processors. Apple really isn't doing anything outside of industry norms here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Doesn't really apply here, I'm perfectly happy with my m1 and will be for years. If Apple wanted to design these processors for planned obsolescence they wouldn't make them run so damn fast.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah I think what the guy above is missing is the concept that companies schedule certain performance aspects on a timer so that they can release things in the most financially beneficial release cycle with only enough performance benefit to maximize their sales numbers. People seem to think that tech companies like these are releasing their very best product at coincidentally regular intervals with surprisingly similar performance increases

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Nothing remarkable about putting placeholders for future products there. I’m sure iPhone 15 16 17 have all been registered on reddit Lemmy etc. as land grabs. this is no different, just put the stems in for the server.