M5 -- Apple Update -- Everything, Everywhere All At Once -- July 5, 2024

Locator: 48058APPLE.

Again, a lot buried in this story. Six links, all from today:

• first, Macrumors;
• Tomshardware, calling it a "leak."
• Reddit.
• AMD, SoIC, leapfrog, 2022.
• TSMC, SoIC, 2020.
• comment.

I may come back to this later. But this is another huge story. 

This is one person's view, from the Reddit link above:

CHIPS tracked here on the blog.

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Thoughts?

Check out the wiki page on "transistor count."

• July 5, 2024: Apple's M5.
• May 7, 2024: Wiki has not updated its "transistor count" page and as of this date does not include the M4 chip. Later: Wiki now includes the M4 but it's higher up the list and easily missed.
• May 7, 2024: Apple introduces NPUs with the new iPads. NPUs have been around for awhile; Apple has the lead, and is now talking about NPUs. I think this was the first day I've heard NPUs mentioned as "NPUs" and it was Tim Cook.

The links above are, of course, dynamic, but looking at these links today, there's a suggestion that there may be something new happening -- it's almost as if the number of transistors on a chip is less important than how developers "link" those CPUs, GPUs, NPUs together on the same chip -- PoPs and SoCs. 

Maybe more on this later.

Hey, by the way, how about AMD today? 

One may want to go back and look at this AMD story from just two days ago.