The ARM chip race is getting wild… Apple M4 unveiled

yesterday Apple unveiled its latest Marvel of computing technology and no I'm not talking about its new $129 pencil or its new $299 keyboard and it's not a new electric car that charges from the bottom it's the new M4 chip which Apple claims is the biggest and baddest chip the PC market has ever seen it CPU is 50% faster than the M2 it's got built-in Ray tracing and the neural engine can handle a ridiculous 38 trillion operations per second making it the fastest chip for AI workloads on the PC market today what's interesting though is that Apple chose to unveil M4 yesterday at its iPad event and not its worldwide developer conference which is only a month away what you may not realize is that we're in the middle of an arms race a global race to build the best arm-based chip and dominate the world but Apple's lead may not last very long in today's video we'll look at the major players and what it all means for the future of computing technology it is May 8th 2024 and you're watching the code report everybody I know is building arm chips the Samsung Google Microsoft and even Intel are joining the arms race but wait a second what even is arm well historically personal computers like those running Windows or Mac OS run on CPUs that use the x86 architecture and those chips are typically built by Intel or AMD x86 is based on the complex instruction set which is extremely versatile and fast for a wide variety of computing needs however when smartphones became a thing they chose to use Arm processors based on the reduced instruction set which requires fewer transistors per instruction making it more power efficient and and that of course is critical for battery powered devices but there is always an assumption that arm wasn't optimal for regular computers well that changed in 2020 when Apple released the M1 chip suddenly their laptops were faster quieter and no longer caused third degree burns on my crotal region and this motivated Microsoft to launch project voltera to run Windows on arm chips in addition data centers like AWS have realized that arm chips are more efficient in the cloud and now you have Amazon Google and Microsoft all making their own arm chips for their data centers like a ws graviton and Google Axion what's kind of crazy though is that the company behind this architecture is worth over hundred billion but it's never actually made a single chip instead it just designs the architecture which is then licensed by big companies and ultimately manufactured at places like Taiwan semiconductor they produce Apple's M chips and one big selling point of the M4 is that it has the most powerful neural engine ever Apple's been very quiet in the AI race but it looks like their goal is to run large language models on device or on the edge this would be awesome for users because then an llm could work offline with low latency and most importantly keep all the chat messages with your AI girlfriend private on device but Apple's lead may not last very long in just a couple weeks Qualcomm is expected to release the Snapdragon X Elite chip which could outperform the M4 and would be the chip running Windows on Surface laptops they claim it can do 45 trillion operations per second versus a measly 38 trillion operations per second on the M4 although they might be cheating on these benchmarks now the reason they're competing so fiercely on these numbers is because in the near future the device that can run the best AI model natively is the device that people will buy Apple is in the business of selling hardware and strategically it would be pretty embarrassing if Microsoft laptops could run AI better than Apple you should see what this guy can do with a spreadsheet it's insane sh but with all this talk about arm you might be wondering is x86 now a dead technology well some people out there make a pretty good argument that x86 needs to die but keep in mind it's been around for over 45 years and it's so deeply embedded in modern infast structure that it's likely going to outlive everyone here on planet Earth today in addition just the other day documents were leaked about Intel's new aerol Lake processor which has been built from the ground up to consume less power and could potentially handle over 100 trillion operations per second in addition AMD is also coming out with the new ryzen AI 9 and now we're starting to see a pattern emerge here the company that can maximize the AI cringe level on their branding is the company that will ultimately win this race and that's why next month at WWDC it's rumored that Apple will finally the MacBook Singularity Blaster turbo Pro Max this has been the code report thanks for watching and I will see you in the next one

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Length: 4min 7sec (247 seconds)

Published: Wed May 08 2024