Apple Silicon M1 Die-Shots

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

[ Parent | on HN ]

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.

[ Parent | on HN ]

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....

[ Parent | on HN ]