By: Patrick Chase (patrickjchase.delete@this.gmail.com), December 3, 2014 12:09 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Maynard Handley (name99.delete@this.name99.org) on December 2, 2014 7:33 pm wrote:
> That certainly
> gives one (admittedly not overwhelming) reason why Apple might want to rush forward with
> a new core faster than expected, and perhaps why the A8 was so much just a tweaked A7.
Modern cores, particularly ones as complex as Cyclone, are extremely costly to develop and verify. That is true even for teams as strong as the ex-PASemi/Intrinsity folks at Apple.
The idea that A8's CPU would be anything *but* a tweaked Cyclone was never anything more than a fanboy fever dream.
> That certainly
> gives one (admittedly not overwhelming) reason why Apple might want to rush forward with
> a new core faster than expected, and perhaps why the A8 was so much just a tweaked A7.
Modern cores, particularly ones as complex as Cyclone, are extremely costly to develop and verify. That is true even for teams as strong as the ex-PASemi/Intrinsity folks at Apple.
The idea that A8's CPU would be anything *but* a tweaked Cyclone was never anything more than a fanboy fever dream.
