Cost money sure... but for all anyone knows, just showing a working ES to the right people at intel and amd knocked enough off their chip pricing to get all their money back ;)
And I strongly suspect Apple's been doing the same with ARM MacBook prototypes since A8X, if not before...
Speculation aside, it's pretty cool to see an ARM core competitive at this scale at the socket level.
And I strongly suspect Apple's been doing the same with ARM MacBook prototypes since A8X, if not before...
Speculation aside, it's pretty cool to see an ARM core competitive at this scale at the socket level.