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   Alex Russell (slightlyoff@toot.cafe)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 20:31:31 JST Alex Russell

   I've been banging on for years about how the low-end of the mobile market has been just totally f'd in terms of the properties that make chips *actually* fast (process shrink + aggressive memory hierarchy optimisation; not core counts), and for this year's PIG post, I'm making EVEN MOAR CHARTS:

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     Alex Russell (slightlyoff@toot.cafe)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:12:47 JST Alex Russell

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     Apple continues to lead on top-end chip frequencies, in part because it pays more for access to the smallest process nodes...but that's not what's really going on. The big story for the past 10 years is that Android SoC vendors (Google very much included) have *sucked* at keeping their chips fed with enough data to retire work quickly.

     Why? Because they were afraid to trade cores for cache, no matter how much it hobbled their phones.