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> Now you can see why we speculate that the AirPods are similarly equipped with XNU on an ARM SoC. Sensational speculation?
by wila 10y ago
> Now you can see why we speculate that the AirPods are similarly equipped with XNU on an ARM SoC.
Sensational speculation?
- TickleSteve 10y ago... And wrong, the Bluetooth chipsets are typically based around cortex m0 level devices... And those don't support XNU. There is absolutely no need to put an iOS level devices in a pair of ear buds, video decoding on the other hand does need that.
- wila 10y agoYep, my bet is that they're just expensive blue tooth ear buds. If they would need to do any additional processing then the most logical place to do that is the phone, not the air pod.
- vlaskovits 10y agoNot if you need low-latency...
- bborud 10y agonRF52 is M4. Not that it makes a big difference if you want to run XNU. (We build LoRa + BT + NFC radio modules for prototyping purposes at work. Nordic Semiconductor is in the same building so we got our hands on their new chips very early)