Latest M3 chips are seen being tested.
  • AaronParan@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    “Huh, you don’t need a lot of RAM if you combine the CPU and GPU into one chip with the RAM itself and use reduced instruction set?”

    “Yeah, 8086 ran out of ideas somewhere around ‘what if we eliminated the North Bridge?”

  • juxtaposition0617@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, not surprised at all. Apple’s known to recruit some of the smartest new grads and existing hardware engineers. At Berkeley, they were heavily investing in computer engineering such as our research and classes. One CE class was literally created by Apple.

  • drvenkman9@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Correction: more tutti-fruitti, phoney-baloney, plastic banana, good time, rock-n-roll Apple PR. Anybody who develops their own chips has this kind of facility. Apple’s chips are amazing, so it is mind boggling why they continue these trite PR tricks. Let the products shine!

  • tapomirbowles@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    No they didnt. They showed a small testing facility that were during heat testing on some of the chips.

    • justformygoodiphone@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      And “these are m3 chips”… sure, you are JUST testing m3 chips as they have been shipping to customers for months lol.

      If I had to guess the testing facilities would be at least a full generation ahead of production if not more.

      • tapomirbowles@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Headline is saying that they revealed the lab that PRODUCED the M silicon though. Which is not true.

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    1 year ago

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  • tiagojpg@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Apple only started working on its processors in around 2008. At that time there were only 40 or 50 engineers… The team got bigger through greater ambitions and acquisitions and in 2023 there are “thousands of engineers working across labs all over the world,” including those in the U.S. Israel, Germany, Austria, the U.K., and Japan.

    Electronics galore. Moore’s Law manifesting