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Re:Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery by spideymans on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @09:06AM (#25209323)
> I am going to speculate now, but maybe, just maybe, if some of the silicon that apple has used on the M1 is used for compression/decompression they could be transparently compressing all ram in hardware. Since this offloaded from the CPUs and allows a compressed stream of data from memory, they achieve greater ram bandwidth, less latency and less usage for a given amount of memory.

Are you aware of any x86 chips that utilize this method?

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Re:Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery by accountofme on Sunday November 29, 2020 @10:25AM (#25245615)
Not that I am aware. I remember seeing apple doing something it in software with the intel macs. Which is why I speculated about it being hardware for M1.

Cheers

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