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Re:HomePod Mini by Synaesthesia on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @03:18PM (#24769166)
It's not that bad of a CPU. It's powering my iPad Air 2 (A8X) which doesn't do too badly.

Remember when we were freaking out about the unprecedented performance of the A7, the first 64-bit mobile chip? And now it's in a speaker.

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Re:HomePod Mini by duhi88 on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @04:18PM (#24769870)
For real. Maybe, just maybe, a voice-controlled speaker doesn't need the latest cutting edge CPU.

I wasn't expecting new Homepod hardware until after they announce on-device Siri. That seems like the only thing that would warrant a better CPU.

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