Eye opener. Thanks Doug and Gordon. The comparison to Apple Vision Pro piqued curiosity, mainly about what the R1 chip is doing now and how? I ask because the R1, seems to perform fairly well compared to their chip, using radically new technology. Power consumption is another matter.
Put another way, perhaps the R1 also has a radically new architecture.
Looks like the R1 is customized to handle AR sensor data. Not sure of the specifics, but it looks like it might be built more around specialization of task and perhaps a novel separation of general compute for the device and sensors vs a novel chip architecture. Apple does a great job with this specialization in their devices.
Eye opener. Thanks Doug and Gordon. The comparison to Apple Vision Pro piqued curiosity, mainly about what the R1 chip is doing now and how? I ask because the R1, seems to perform fairly well compared to their chip, using radically new technology. Power consumption is another matter.
Put another way, perhaps the R1 also has a radically new architecture.
Looks like the R1 is customized to handle AR sensor data. Not sure of the specifics, but it looks like it might be built more around specialization of task and perhaps a novel separation of general compute for the device and sensors vs a novel chip architecture. Apple does a great job with this specialization in their devices.