分析師：誰說蘋果停止創新了？
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????上周六，科技博客AppleInsider的丹尼爾?伊蘭?迪爾格發表了一篇熱情洋溢的文章，大贊蘋果（Apple）上周二發布的iPhone 5S讓三星（Samsung）大吃一驚。iPhone 5S搭載的不再是由三星制造的32位A6處理器，而是擁有10億個晶體管，堪稱蘋果最高機密的64位A7處理器。
????迪爾格寫道，由于蘋果嚴厲的保密措施，大家至今仍無法確定A7處理器的生產廠商，但有跡象顯示，這款處理器的部分訂單已經轉移到了三星的死對頭——臺灣臺積電半導體公司（TSMC）手里。 ????迪爾格這篇大作共有4300個字，但是“果黒”們估計最多也就看看前面幾段了。 ????這實在是可惜，因為在這篇文章的中間部分，迪爾格十分有力的論證了蘋果飽受詬病的創新引擎仍然在運轉。 ????為了方便那些半途而廢的讀者，還有那些完全錯過了迪爾格這篇文章的讀者，我將此文的引言和要點摘錄如下： ????2013年以來，科技媒體紛紛抱怨蘋果缺乏創新，但事實上蘋果一直在創新，成績包括： ? 正秘密研發新款Mac Pro超級電腦 ? 完善指紋安全公司AuthenTec授權的Touch ID技術 ? 完成iOS 7和OS X小牛的開發 ? 在業界首次引入64位架構移動處理器 ? 雖然數據中心并不是蘋果主業，但它仍然在iCloud數據中心上投資了數10億美元 ? 蘋果還設計了一系列煥然一新的零售商店，例如被蒂姆?庫克帶入公眾視野的加州Stanford 2商店 ? 正在建設中的蘋果新園區Apple Campus 2 ? 除此之外，蘋果還向臺積電提供了資金。后者將斥資數十億美元建造新的芯片廠，以生產20納米級的尖端處理器芯片。（財富中文網） ????譯者：項航?? |
????AppleInsider's Daniel Eran Dilger filed a fascinating piece Saturday suggesting that Samsung was caught by surprise when Apple (AAPL) announced Tuesday that the iPhone 5S would be powered not by the 32-bit A6 system-on-a-chip that Samsung manufactures, but by a new, top-secret 1-billion-transistor 64-bit A7 chip. ????Not only did Apple manage to keep its No. 1 semiconductor supplier in the dark about the new system chip, Dilger writes, but it seems to have handed the business to one of Samsung's chief rivals, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSM). ????It's a long piece -- 4,300 words -- too long to expect Apple's denigrators to read much more than the first few paragraphs. ????That's a pity, because about half-way through, Dilger makes as strong a case as I've seen lately that Apple's much-maligned innovation engine is still humming along. ????As a service to those who didn't make it to the middle -- or who missed the piece entirely -- here are Dilger's lead-in and his main bullet points: ????It turns out that while the tech media spent most of 2013 complaining that Apple 'wasn't innovating,' Apple was... ? Secretly developing its new Mac Pro supercomputer ? Perfecting its Authentech-based Touch ID technology ? Completing iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks ? Bringing an entirely new 64-bit mobile architecture into production ahead of the world's leading chip designers and foundries ? As nearly a side project, spending billions to build out a series of new iCloud data centers ? And Apple retail palaces like the new Stanford 2 store Cook drew attention to ? As well as the new Apple Campus 2 ? On top of all this, it was also financing the construction of a multibillion dollar new chip foundry with TSMC capable of producing advanced new 20nm components. |
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