I would imagine Apple is a big enough company to weather these troubles and eventually get something out of it. It seems at the scale of their iphone sales, it would still make sense to keep sinking billions more into this than have to pay the Qualcomm tax forever.
it probably costs AMD nothing to keep ordering these from Global Foundries. I’m GloFlo is just happy to have someone taking up foundry space. Dual Cores with SMT wouldn’t be terrible in 2023 just for a basic web browsing computer. With programs like Google docs and Office 365 just living in browsers, things like Canvas and Balckboard also only existing on a browser, and most of the most popular sites on the internet pretty much just being netflix, youtube, facebook, reddit, and instagram, tik tok and sites like that, all of which will run on pretty much anything, there isn’t much too wrong here. People were going on youtube, reddit, and facebook back in 2010 when most people had 2 cores. Sites have become more demanding, but hardware even at the low end is just so fast now for these ultra basic tasks. Haswell IPC is still more than usable in 2023 for web browsing. The biggest pain is really how heavy windows has become for essentially no real benefit to the user. to browse the web on windows 11 you end up eating up way more ram than windows 7. Mostly due to windows 11 running like a billion processes in the background doing random crap that does nothing to benefit me. Installing any linux distro or debloated windows version will really benefit a system like this. The less processes fighting each other just so you can watch subway surfer videos, the better. The media engine supports H264 and H265 decoding so that will do most of the heavy lifting for content consumption.
Seems unlikely for them of open source the engine as they’re switching away from it. Why give away all that dev time and effort and not gain any benefit from it? While I think it’s the correct move to open source it and let the community take over development, a for profit company is never gonna do that unless they would benefit. Like open sourcing the engine while still using it so you get a wider amount of devs throwing their efforts in. So for a company, they get “free” dev work, and in return for those same devs get to use the engine on whatever project they want without licensing issues. Open sourcing abandoned or depreciated software, especially game engines, really is a dead legacy of a simpler time in computing. Gone are the days of companies like ID open sourcing their engines and games once their release cycle was done. With the advent of always online and games as a service, we’ll never seen major companies ever release old games as open source since even a 40 year old game can be monetized in a modern digital store.