CAD vs USD is rather stable, varying between 0.70-0.73 the last 12 months though trending down from 0.8 in the last 60 months.
There is a nuance: Xiaomi is not Huawei. They were not sanctioned. This chip is made in Taiwan like all the non-Samsung competition.
In this case it's more that multiple companies (Apple, Qualcomm, MediaTek and now Xiaomi) have used the same process (N3P) to produce multiple chips with similar performance. Regardless of Moore's Law death that isn't…
That has nothing to do with this chip, as it's made in Taiwan by TSMC.
At ~12W the 30.5mm sq CPU cluster is approximately 18% higher GB6.5 MT than the ~12W 20mm sq CPU cluster in the Apple A19 Pro. But for the +50% number, it used ~30W. I doubt phones will use that much power.
ARM licenses process optimized blocks of their cores for common TSMC processes. This O3 SoC still seems to be the best standard ARM core on N3P. But some of that may be from being 1) 30.5mm sq (the largest CPU cluster…
Also note that CPU cluster here is about ~30.5 sq mm. That's about 50% larger than the A19 Pro (~20 sq mm). No free lunch.
Xiaomi has not been sanctioned like Huawei. So it is made by TSMC on N3P. The Huawei chips, made by SMIC, are so far behind they're not competitive at all with even Xiaomi's first generation chip.
It's an ARM-designed CPU core, made in Taiwan. Very little difference from say MediaTek's upcoming Dimensity SoC just announced earlier because it is made on TSMC N3P instead of N2. I don't think they have any angle…
Canada has basically the same debt to GDP ratio: https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/GG_DEBT_GDP@GDD/CAN/... It's likely a really bad idea for either side to tariff the other but as I understand Canada feels a bit…
Memory prices are cyclical. But this is bigger and longer than most cycles.
I guess they don't bother using Speedtest in Switzerland, as the average speed seems about the same as the US: https://www.speedtest.net/global-index Must be a sampling bias or something.
AMD's first Athlon chips did not run particularily hot. They needed a fan, just like Williamette chips, but actually used less power than the competition. The difference was they had no internal, on-chip diode. If the…
The plan doesn't involve running fabs again. Too expensive. IBM licenses their manufacturing technology (so far to Rapidus in Japan).
No, it stems from a lineage of Tegra chips that pre-date the M-Series. This chip was called GB10. One of its predecessors, GV10 was shipped in 2018. It was a 256 bit, unified-memory system on a chip with a Volta GPU and…
MediaTek designed X925 + A725 CPU. It's already been benchmarked in the GB10 products. It is not even close. Like 0.75x SPECint 2017 of the M5.
It's the same configuration as GB10. 20 core MediaTek 3nm part which is competitive with a AMD's 2025 16 core 4nm part with similar power draw. https://www.servethehome.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cpu2...
What's the real cause of them being unable to price competitively? Is it DRAM, NAND flash storage, SoC cost, simply scale?
I must also admit to preferring Sim City 3000 over 4. I don't know if I can handle a 4K user interface without a magnifier, however.
I suspect general attitude to AI will split along those who had to apply for jobs in the post-AI world of automatic resume generation and filtering and those who didn't.
There's little reason at this price. I run both, Plex for people who are already used to it, and Jellyfin for myself and anyone new. At around ~$100 I think the Plex experience was better enough to justify it,…
Nethack embeds Lua 5.4.8, so you don't need it installed from a distribution's package manager. As long as your system can build C99* it can build Lua. And given that Nethack 5.0.0 is C99, this dependency is not…
@jasoneckert For the sake of science, can you disable your e cores and try this test again?
Question: do those vectorize code as in the example here? I was of the understanding they performed a more limited subset of optimizations.
Some instructions are microcoded but others take the fast path and avoid the microcode sequencer. Can't patch the latter in microcode RAM.
CAD vs USD is rather stable, varying between 0.70-0.73 the last 12 months though trending down from 0.8 in the last 60 months.
There is a nuance: Xiaomi is not Huawei. They were not sanctioned. This chip is made in Taiwan like all the non-Samsung competition.
In this case it's more that multiple companies (Apple, Qualcomm, MediaTek and now Xiaomi) have used the same process (N3P) to produce multiple chips with similar performance. Regardless of Moore's Law death that isn't…
That has nothing to do with this chip, as it's made in Taiwan by TSMC.
At ~12W the 30.5mm sq CPU cluster is approximately 18% higher GB6.5 MT than the ~12W 20mm sq CPU cluster in the Apple A19 Pro. But for the +50% number, it used ~30W. I doubt phones will use that much power.
ARM licenses process optimized blocks of their cores for common TSMC processes. This O3 SoC still seems to be the best standard ARM core on N3P. But some of that may be from being 1) 30.5mm sq (the largest CPU cluster…
Also note that CPU cluster here is about ~30.5 sq mm. That's about 50% larger than the A19 Pro (~20 sq mm). No free lunch.
Xiaomi has not been sanctioned like Huawei. So it is made by TSMC on N3P. The Huawei chips, made by SMIC, are so far behind they're not competitive at all with even Xiaomi's first generation chip.
It's an ARM-designed CPU core, made in Taiwan. Very little difference from say MediaTek's upcoming Dimensity SoC just announced earlier because it is made on TSMC N3P instead of N2. I don't think they have any angle…
Canada has basically the same debt to GDP ratio: https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/GG_DEBT_GDP@GDD/CAN/... It's likely a really bad idea for either side to tariff the other but as I understand Canada feels a bit…
Memory prices are cyclical. But this is bigger and longer than most cycles.
I guess they don't bother using Speedtest in Switzerland, as the average speed seems about the same as the US: https://www.speedtest.net/global-index Must be a sampling bias or something.
AMD's first Athlon chips did not run particularily hot. They needed a fan, just like Williamette chips, but actually used less power than the competition. The difference was they had no internal, on-chip diode. If the…
The plan doesn't involve running fabs again. Too expensive. IBM licenses their manufacturing technology (so far to Rapidus in Japan).
No, it stems from a lineage of Tegra chips that pre-date the M-Series. This chip was called GB10. One of its predecessors, GV10 was shipped in 2018. It was a 256 bit, unified-memory system on a chip with a Volta GPU and…
MediaTek designed X925 + A725 CPU. It's already been benchmarked in the GB10 products. It is not even close. Like 0.75x SPECint 2017 of the M5.
It's the same configuration as GB10. 20 core MediaTek 3nm part which is competitive with a AMD's 2025 16 core 4nm part with similar power draw. https://www.servethehome.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cpu2...
What's the real cause of them being unable to price competitively? Is it DRAM, NAND flash storage, SoC cost, simply scale?
I must also admit to preferring Sim City 3000 over 4. I don't know if I can handle a 4K user interface without a magnifier, however.
I suspect general attitude to AI will split along those who had to apply for jobs in the post-AI world of automatic resume generation and filtering and those who didn't.
There's little reason at this price. I run both, Plex for people who are already used to it, and Jellyfin for myself and anyone new. At around ~$100 I think the Plex experience was better enough to justify it,…
Nethack embeds Lua 5.4.8, so you don't need it installed from a distribution's package manager. As long as your system can build C99* it can build Lua. And given that Nethack 5.0.0 is C99, this dependency is not…
@jasoneckert For the sake of science, can you disable your e cores and try this test again?
Question: do those vectorize code as in the example here? I was of the understanding they performed a more limited subset of optimizations.
Some instructions are microcoded but others take the fast path and avoid the microcode sequencer. Can't patch the latter in microcode RAM.