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Buckaroo Ponzi

@atpfm What is so much better about apple’s chip designs? Besides tailoring to their own needs and monopsony access to smaller process nodes. They must have some design principle or innovation that stops Samsung and Qualcomm from catching up, right?

@atpfm okay thank you guys so much but Siracusa really answered a different question. The best designers make the best designs yes, but what is good about these designs? Is careful workload optimization (objc_msgSend branch predictor) the whole ideological approach or is there some other thing? Is anyone working out ALL the details?

And yes it’s Buckaroo Banzai but it’s Charles Ponzi, so I’d say Pon-zee.

This feels like I’m coming after Siracusa but I love you all and Siracusa first among equals.