Everyone is racing to copy Apple. Here's why.

He rambles sooo much!

I don't understand why you would want to run linux on a mac. mac os already feels like a very well polished linux distro for instance having unix running under the hood having a really good terminal based package manager like homebrew. What really would be the point of running linux on a macbook?

Long story short… pc’s are doing what consoles have been doing for years.

Why don't just stream computing power?

Such an informative video. I’ll sub!

Everyone is racing to copy ~~apple~~ raspberry pi

I thought the Ax was doing SoC before Mx came along: the A4 tailored ARMv7 to maximise efficiency from theSoC design and the three processors before that. The PowerPC architecture was a precursor to them I thought. Mx is simply doing it a lot better and the Hx, Tx, etc SoCs take hardware-software integration even further.

1m units isn't 'by storm'. I think you may be taking liberties with exaggeration there 🤣 I hope the 32bit em works but I don't think it will be any more popular than Parallels or any other multi-OS options have been. Apple is as particular about other companies' OSs on its hardware as MS is about hardware makers installing other companies' OSs. I like your enthusiasm though.

Not really true, Nvidia have already been pioneering accelerated computing for ages now, and have long since have developed accelerating hardwares from Rasterization rendering, to their Nvenc video encoder, to AI accelerating Tensor cores, to RT cores that achieved the holy grail of computer graphics: real time ray tracing, all dedicated hardware technologies long before Apple did, and they not just developed the hardware, but also the API that help devs to make their software work with those accelerations such as CUDA and Optix, and software technologies like DLSS, and ReSTIR. In fact in the realm of dedicated hardware acceleration, Apple is actually behind in this apartment since CUDA already are widely used in AI and do utilized the Tensor cores in certain AI applications, and Optix with RT cores are just way more advance than anything Apple have in the graphics apartment, plus Nvenc now support AV1 on ADA generation. Apple’s advantage isn’t their hardware acceleration, it’s their tight integration of every part of their ecosystem, and their unified memory architecture that allow the CPU to have extremely high memory bandwidth, and their GPU to have access to huge amount of Vram. Companies are now more often racing to copy Nvidia than Apple in terms of hardware acceleration.

Oh the irony, as Moore’s law has pretty much died around the same time Moore did.

It was doubling every year at first, not two, and the doubling slowed, people kept changing the time frame needed for doubling over time.

Also, your example of Apple's processor isn't really software defined hardware... It is good old hardware acceleration, the best example would be Amiga from the 80s, where they have hardware acceleration for almost everything it does.

Excellent analysis!

OMG, you mean by being innovative, manufacturing quality well designed products, providing qualified quality support and more? About F——- time.

Loving the beard brother

good video, but i notice that you say that Rise of the Tom Rider runs using proton but its a native game in linux

One comment however: although the gaming example is quite good, Tomb Raider is not a Windows DX game. Steam automatically downloads and installs the linux port which on the steam deck seems to run a slight bit more efficiently. It is possible to run the windows version by choosing a specific proton compatibility mode, but that's not the one by default.

The content I find here is just incredible. Great work.

We knew that the industry is going this architecture the moment Apple decided to put this from smartphone to computer, and nailed it. 😉

Great material, however - all of this was once done and it was running super fast and stable. There was once machine called Amiga :)

Thank you for your contribution, another on Spatial Computing cross platform compatibility would be of interest!

A processor that has drivers for ever Os that exist seems like a dream I would love one specifically built for fedora…..

My M1 Pro chip is so powerful that I don't feel any need or want to upgrade to any newer Macs, and I use it to develop iPhone apps with Xcode.

Only 4 comments mentioning FPGA's? This is the answer, and I can't wait. Multi-core FPGA would be insane (where they would get more refined over time based on the task load).

I disagree wholeheartedly with the rosy outlook this video aims to give to its audience.

This situation is not positive for 3rd party OSes (predominantly linux-based distros.) At best I see Apple's current attitude toward this Linux distro as out-sourcing programming work to the Linux community and thus it being totally free.

I remember the first few iPhones back in the late 2000's and how vibrant the jail breaking scene was for them. The freedom users found in their new revolutionary devices came in large part due to the awesome community that existed around iOS modification.

With the advent of their later generations, Apple ID become a bludgeoning tool against this community and if you get your hands on an new iPhone, this jail-breaking scene is a long forgotten memory.

Apple's good grace toward seperate Linux partitions exists for only as long as they find it profitable and not-threatening.

As soon as these conditions end, they will quash it like a bug. With the recent development Microsoft is looking into its own silica the writing is on the wall.

I agree the paradigm in computer processing was due for a badly needed update. And funnily enough we had a cool model in SOCs like the Raspberry Pi. Integrations of soundcards and basic onboard display handing would liberate motherboard manufacturers into offering new and exciting varieties of configs.

Instead, the major tech players have seen the grotesque money coming from cellphone tracking and advertisement and figured they could just use ARM to make computers like cellphones.

Its a dark time.

But isn’t there extremely limited support for software utilizing an arm processor like these ?

always brilliant. Keep up the fantastic content

Also don't forget that the same person who said More's law is dead also said:

"More's law is on pause"
"wooosh wooosh! I'm the sound effect "

ASAHI LINUX FTW

Actually Apple is copying rveryone else.
Just years later after other companies do all the initial work testing beta testing marketing including arm specialized chips.
Temember atari and amiga?😅
Etc.

No one is racing to Apple

Hilarious

I also fear this Hardware dependent upgrades are coming to our PCs. M1 as a standalone processor isn't really as fast if we take away the specialized accelerators. So when Apple makes new and improved accelerators in their future M series CPUs. Older Macs would be unable to upgrade as their hardware won't be compatible with software. If Windows 11's demanding hardware requirements are being criticised, soon every major upgrade of Windows would require a new hardware.

Interesting watch

well, in the past of the pre-unix pre-history of computing, hardware was designed for software and the results were very slow, UNIX/C allowed to decouple development of hardware and software by both targetting a simple instruction set. now that we reached the physical limit of miniaturization, we can also explore different designs of hardware because Intel is crap.

Great video!

Make more videos on how apple is ahead of the game

It’s amazing to me how great apple is and how every shty company wants to copy them

So; TLDW, the end for general purpose cpus are near, therefore there will be rise of ASICs in future. I don't think so, especially if you counter software development is gonna change with AI in future. There will be massive surge of analog computing in future, there will RICSs in future, Intel is even designing chips that will have arm, riscv and also x86. But the whole software defined hardware is most likely not gonna be the future, especially if you consider the future of software development to be what Karpathy described as software 2.0. Cool video but I don't think it's gonna happen.

This was very thorough and interesting. Thank you for making this

you soooooo smart

Linux on my M1 macbook sounds great. I hope it gets Gnome Shell support.

You wish buddy 😂😂😂😂😂.

Thank you for showing me that a mountaineering video game exists!!

5nm is pretty small

Your M1 description reminds me of the PS5’s APU. It has dedicated chiplets for sound, decompression, Ray tracing and more.

I thought at first that with the M1 platform it just “felt” better because it was new. A year later I’m still searching in vain for a problem set that is problematic for M1 Max Studio. With M1 it was a 10 year leap on its own.

When you try to make processors better, is when you need to take a look at the human brain... look how nature made living forms work. Our brains are massive, they are floating in liquid, they do not overheat and they work for years receiving impacts. We create our own energy when eating, we regulate our own head (our software does) and we can move from one place to another to secure resources to create more of ourselves.

Imagine a robot doing all that as fluid as this guy is talking.

This is why new architectures and task specific ICs will come back to fashion. With the availability of open cores and open ISAs like RISC V will push some architectures to the side over the next 5-7 years