Apple Silicon M1 Die-Shots • Hacker News Board

Re: Apple Silicon M1 Die-Shots

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Post by RantyDave » Mon, Dec 28, 2020, 1:35 AM UTC

Synaesthesia wrote: post #76

bullen wrote: post #68

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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

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.

It lists the nvme drive as being attached to "Apple Fabric" so that sounds like an internal bus of some description....

Re: Apple Silicon M1 Die-Shots

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Post by perryizgr8 » Mon, Dec 28, 2020, 5:34 PM UTC

nullify88 wrote: post #100

murukesh_s wrote: post #87

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its a shame we can't 'dock' em to a larger monitor to do desktop work yet. There are attempts by few players, but if Apple can do that it would be another revolution..

I was pretty excited about Linux on DeX for Samsung devices since it had a capable CPU but unfortunately they discontinued it when Android 10 was released.

The standard dex is also quite capable. You can install terminals which have all the standard utils. I was even able to run vs code.

Re: Apple Silicon M1 Die-Shots

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Post by JohnJamesRambo » Mon, Dec 28, 2020, 11:32 PM UTC

hombre_fatal wrote: post #102

JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #70

Can we step back and marvel at the absurdity that one of the most powerful CPUs ever created was for a phone?

It's not absurd at all, nor surprising that the most power efficient chip was compelled by the most portable general computing device. Plugged-in desktop computers certainly weren't going to bring us here. This just sounds like "DAE think phone=bad XD" anti-intellectualism.

I think people are misconstruing what I am saying here. I said marvel at it. It's crazy that a handheld battery powered device has one of the greatest processors in the history of human existence in it.

Re: Apple Silicon M1 Die-Shots

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Post by dan1234 » Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 1:10 PM UTC

jeffbee wrote: post #105

dan1234 wrote: post #63

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I’d love to know where you’re picking up LPDDR4X-4266 RAM for $15?

Are you actually asking? The spot price for LPDDR4X 16G is only $9. I was actually being generous. No doubt the contract price is far lower.

Yeah a link would be good. I haven’t seen anything approaching those prices - all well over $100