John Siracusa

And people are like, well, no, of course my code is important.

So it needs to be on the power cores.

Like, uh,

i get where apple is coming from but it's like we didn't choose the names apple you you could have called them but again the arm uh nomenclature for the first chips it is is big little where big is an all lowercase and little is in all caps i think which is also funny yeah but like it's it's a marketing thing with the tech behind it because they don't want people to feel like they're having lesser cores and we'll as we'll see when we start looking what's in these chips and the renaming also makes sense in the context of what they how they design them um

but this is actually one of the most interesting years for the m chips in a long time not because the m5 line is you know super amazing i think it's good like it's better than the m4 but like the pro and max are just plain manufactured differently and having the cpu and gpu as like separate dies i yeah apple didn't release pictures of what this looks like but as soon as someone gets these and slices it open i'll love to see what's going on inside there

A, it opens up the possibility of something even cooler for the M5 Ultra.

So we'll see if that ever materializes or even anything beyond that.

But B, it is a split line.

Plain M5 is essentially built differently than the Pro and the Max.

We do.

Well, no, not for the Pro and the Max.

No, that's not what they're called anymore.

Jesus.

Yeah, anyway, so the number of the big cores.

Well, it's actually, you can read Apple's base, like, overall performance claims before we get to the specs.

So this is what they're saying, like, for the line of chips.

That 4x1 is the biggest number they've thrown up.

Because otherwise, like, 30%, 15%, like, it's a generation, you know, the M5 is faster than the M4 in the usual amount, which is good.

Like, 30%, 15%, those are fine numbers for a generation.

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