… Lattner brings serious credibility, having created the LLVM compiler and Apple's Swift language before turning to AI, which counts for a lot in a field where grand promises tend to die in the toolchain. Power and cost set the ceiling for AI now. …
… While smaller AI tasks will continue to run locally on iPhone and Mac silicon, more complex reasoning and multi-step agent actions require some extra muscle. Thus, Apple developed AFM 3 Cloud Pro, a massive model optimized specifically for NVIDIA GPUs. …
… When you see the RTX Spark's specifications laid out this way, it's easy to understand why someone might make a comparison to Apple silicon. On the surface, the RTX Spark and Apple's M5 Pro seem fairly similar in terms of their specifications. …
… Whether this threat began in earnest when Apple ditched Intel's silicon for its own in-house designs based on Arm or when Qualcomm wooed Microsoft with a big Windows on Arm push including the first wave of Copilot+ PCs is up for debate. …
… Don't despair, though—deals are the great equalizer, and we found two of them that deliver big savings to gamers. One is a Gigabyte laptop combining AND and NVIDIA silicon, and the other a Lenovo gaming tablet with Snapdragon inside. …