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A comment on Apple Silicon M1 Die-Shots.

Re:Apple Silicon M1 Die-Shots by Waterluvian on Saturday December 26, 2020 @08:30PM (#25548013)
What's all the stuff that isn't annotated with a yellow rectangle?
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Re:Apple Silicon M1 Die-Shots by deaddodo on Saturday December 26, 2020 @08:41PM (#25548077)
This is a SoC, not a CPU. The majority of the non-annotated is glue logic, I/O, etc.
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Re:Apple Silicon M1 Die-Shots by bullen on Sunday December 27, 2020 @05:32AM (#25550149)
That's alot of glue! I would say ~50%! What is the system cache? nm, see question below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25547796
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Re:Apple Silicon M1 Die-Shots by Synaesthesia on Sunday December 27, 2020 @07:16AM (#25550521)
It has a lot of roles. You have memory controllers, i/o controllers. Not sure if the SSD controllers is also part of it. Then the dedicated video encode/decode the image processing the neural engine. There's a lot of features.
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Re:Apple Silicon M1 Die-Shots by RantyDave on Sunday December 27, 2020 @08:35PM (#25555900)
It lists the nvme drive as being attached to "Apple Fabric" so that sounds like an internal bus of some description....
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