Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs

Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by robocat on Monday June 22, 2020 @06:16PM (#23607527)

Actually the zip algorithm is a perfect candidate for dedicated silicon of a dedicated instruction.

I read about a chip that had that feature yesterday but I can’t find the link unfortunately.

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by Sleaker on Monday June 22, 2020 @06:35PM (#23607733)

this is something that's looking at getting moved to storage controllers on motherboards, ex: PS5/Xbox consoles so that compressed data can be streamed directly to the GPU. Hopefully we'll start to get this type of tech after it's been proven in the console space.

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by fomine3 on Monday June 22, 2020 @09:08PM (#23608897)

Intel QAT supports gzip compression.

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