Note ECP5 and Nexus support is similarly good by now, and these families have larger FPGAs better suitable for miSTer cores.
There's now also some support for GW1N/GW2N FPGA families from China. These have the advantage of being relatively quite cheap, and I hear they have FPGAs with 250k+ LBs coming, with RISC-V hard cores built in.
Wow that sounds cool. I'm playing around with the UP5K (pico ice) right now with apio and it's already the dream. With bigger FPGAs the sky would be the limit.
Verilog is just a logic implementation. It should be pretty portable. There are some issues, and certainly the bitstreams won’t be compatible, but if C still works, I imagine verilog would too.
That’s how I see it too. The FPGA version are knock offs, like would have been done back in the day but with fancy future hardware. A gate level reproduction would be kinda strange aside from pure desire for preservation. (Which is still a decent goal, just not of these projects)
Not even that. They’re suing to invalidate the patent entirely and are also attacking the W1 watch Massimo sells based on Apple Patents. I’m not sure as to why Apple decided to go full scorched earth, but man they pissed somebody off.
It would be a fantastic outcome if they managed to get the patent invalidated because it seems rather silly (not that Apple, just like other larger corporations, doesn’t have a tendency to patent perfectly “obvious” “innovations” either)
Well back then it was a major breakthrough for more accurate measurements, so no.
Fuck Apple and their we can steal anything we want attitude.
The other way around they are not that lenient
Yep - the total TDP of the comparison is like 600W. The Pro is also for people with strange PCIe card needs - the Mac Studio delivers this performance in a tall MacMini form factor and nearly silent operation. Not that there aren't things to complain about, but Apple Silicon architecture is impressive for what it is. The GPU suffers more for its uncommon architecture that is similar to a phones but is harder to optimize for. Adobe, Logic, and the like will make that effort. I doubt game engines will. But that's why I also have a power hungry windows laptop.
I think Epic could get Unreal to run just fine. Unfortunately they don’t have a great relationship with Apple (I can’t remember why but I think it was something Apple did).
The Mac Pro makes sense for only a few true professionals who need those PCI slots for non-GPU things. But those people are have BIG budgets to spend and are good customers.
Maybe the future Pros will improve, this one is a bit odd. But it has a purpose for those who truly need it.
All features of Discord work for me using the normal system permissions on screen recording and audio. I do run MacVMs with SIP off, but I leave it on as an important security feature most of the time. It's really not a lot different that say, SELinux, except a bit easier to administer but a bit less flexible. RO system volumes are getting popular too. Fedora has one, as does the steam deck.
Everyone always overestimates Intel's ability to do things. I worked for IBM in the P4 days and we were worried about 9-10 GHz pentiums. But Intel has a tendency to coast when it's doing well, and then only wakes up when AMD (and ARM also now) starts taking its lunch money.
