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Waterluvian
on Dec 27, 2020
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Apple Silicon M1 Die-Shots
What's all the stuff that isn't annotated with a yellow rectangle?
deaddodo
on Dec 27, 2020
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This is a SoC, not a CPU. The majority of the non-annotated is glue logic, I/O, etc.
bullen
on Dec 27, 2020
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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
Synaesthesia
on Dec 27, 2020
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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.
RantyDave
on Dec 28, 2020
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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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