Re:Apple M1 foreshadows Rise of RISC-V
by ogre_codes on Sunday December 20, 2020 @01:19PM
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> The sum of a large number of small engineering improvements, coupled with a lot of component integration detail work,
Exactly. ARM has been progressing faster than Intel. For the past 8 years or so, Apple has had the fastest ARM CPU out there on the iPhone/ iPad. Apple has sucked up TSMC's 5nm production. They've integrated a pile of relevant coprocessors into the CPU and put fast RAM on the package. The SSD is lightning fast and SSD encryption is done via a dedicated coprocessor.
It's not one magic trick, it is countless bits of engineering, manufacturing, and purchase choices.
Exactly. ARM has been progressing faster than Intel. For the past 8 years or so, Apple has had the fastest ARM CPU out there on the iPhone/ iPad. Apple has sucked up TSMC's 5nm production. They've integrated a pile of relevant coprocessors into the CPU and put fast RAM on the package. The SSD is lightning fast and SSD encryption is done via a dedicated coprocessor.
It's not one magic trick, it is countless bits of engineering, manufacturing, and purchase choices.