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"...Apple M1 chip"
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'The Apple M1 chip is the kind of breakthrough that redefines what a
computer can do. And this piece of Apple Silicon — which delivers
stellar performance along with record-breaking battery life — was years
in the making.
After creating the A Series for the iPhone and scaling it up for the
iPad, Apple’s team of engineers set its sights on the Mac, but the M1
chip couldn’t just match what Intel had to offer. It had to handily beat it.
“If somebody else could build a chip that was actually going to deliver better performance inside that enclosure, what's the point? Why would we switch?,” said Tim Milet, vice president of platform architecture at
Apple. “And so for my chip architects, that was the target.”'
Seems like, despite protestations by certain trolls, Tom's Guide seems
to think that this chip was designed by Apple...
...and that it is AWESOME:
'Meanwhile, the M1 also blows away most Windows laptops on performance,
both in so-called Universal apps that take full advantage of Apple
Silicon and older programs that run on Apple’s Rosetta 2 software to
make them compatible. That was a key ingredient to making Apple Silicon
viable on Macs.'
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