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Umm... You claim that you're not talking about dropping support, yet you quote yourself talking about not supporting hardware like they should. Do you...

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Again, we're talking old/leftover stock here, not something that has actually been produced for many years. If old stock counted then that "sold...

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As I said, the last GCN2 hardware they released were 5 years ago. You're not going to see hardware that old being sold new unless it's old stock being...

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Sure, there probably are people selling old leftover stock the same way there are people are still selling leftover stock chrome tape C-cassettes, 5.25"...

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Sure if sensing the obvious counts as being "tipped off"...

The fact that they added a load of previously iOS-specific libraries...

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The explanation as to why it took so long in the article seems a little inaccurate or indirect when Bridgman himself has said multiple times here in the...

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You do know that the A73 is one ARM's "big" cores and most definitely not on the same efficiency level as their "small" cores like...

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Well it started me with using other examples of something which is possible, but impractical, to demonstrate a point and it all devolved from here....

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The fact that jet engines are still not considered viable in any new use cases where practicality and/or efficiency is highly relevant proves otherwise....

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Engineering fundamentals really don't change over time and it's well established that while jet engines can be very compact and have high performance,...

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Not exactly feasible when most of Apple's Mac lineup are laptops and compact desktops. Not that Power doesn't have it's uses, but that's like suggesting...

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Did you get the A53 and 55 mixed up there because I was talking about the A53. As for the comparison, you do realize that the A53-based "Little"...

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Considering the state of the Republican party I honestly don't think anything that tries to get them out of power is a waste. I'm really not a fan of...

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I've actually read the technical documentation on the A53 core at one point and it doesn't have branch prediction in terms of actually doing genuine speculative...

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Oh for crying out loud... They don't even have branches named "slave" so the whole "It's referring to slavery and triggers people"-argument...

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As far as straw men go this is a particularly weak one... Ever since the first speculative execution attacks it's been clear that all modern processors...

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Considering how these are just replacing the "X" models at the same price I really wouldn't say that... It really is the same line-up except...