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also at techcrunch:

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/09/google-announces-axion-its...

> Google did not provide any documentation to back these claims up and, like us, you’d probably like to know more about these chips. We asked a lot of questions, but Google politely declined to provide any additional information. No availability dates, no pricing, no additional technical data. Those “benchmark” results? The company wouldn’t even say which X86 instance it was comparing Axion to.

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Goole taking a page from Apple’s playbook.

At least Apple really delivered with the Ax and Mx chips. Let's see if that pans out here as well.

It's google, so probably not. Their claims should always be taken with a grain of salt. They went with their own stuff route for the SOC on their Google Pixel phone lines and those SOC are always much worse than the competition and are the main reason why those phones have such terrible battery life compared to Qualcomm powered phones.

I remember when Apple marketed swift as being xx times faster!

In fine print, compared to python, lul.

This didn't happen

https://www.apple.com/in/swift/

Upto 8.4x faster Than python

As a Python developer, I am happy that Apple mentions Python and acknowledge its existence.

Claim: "In fine print, compared to python,"

Reality: In bold call out:

Up to 2.6X faster than Objective-C

Not sure what your point is but Apple also claims up to 8.4x faster than Python:

https://i.imgur.com/CZ6vTZV.png

My point is we shifted from "compared it to Python in fine print" to "compared it to Objective-C and Python in bold focused callout". People are jaded, we can argue that's actually the same thing, that's fine, but it is a very different situation.

At least with Apple's Bezos charts usually there's fineprint that'll tell you which 3 year old pc laptop they're comparing it to.

They must be really trying to pump the Next conference attendance numbers.

Other way around probably. Team had the next conference as a deadline and this is all they were able to come up with.

Recently there was an article on the frontpage titled "headline driven development".

I guess it happens more often than not.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39891948 - That was posted Apr/1st so authors were half joking

Probably not, given it starts today and is already sold out.

Amazing

Sounds like some middle manager will retire this even before launch so they can replace it with Google Axion CPU or some meaningless name change

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