The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021
Alex Russell
MARCH 6, 2021
A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. mid-priced Androids were slightly faster than 2014's iPhone 6. Chip design choices and silicon economics are the defining feature of the still-growing Performance Inequality Gap.
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