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I agree, it's highly unlikely they would give away their competitive edge. A lot of their speed-ups may even come directly from dedicated silicon anyway, and th

by bArray 6y ago

I agree, it's highly unlikely they would give away their competitive edge. A lot of their speed-ups may even come directly from dedicated silicon anyway, and that would likely be under lock-and-key for quite some time (until hackers of the future reverse engineer the M1).

MisterTea 6y ago
(until hackers of the future reverse engineer the M1). They wont find anything of interest. The M1 is just a well designed low power mid-performance tier chip. There's no magic when you compare a power efficient arm chip to an x86 chip in the same class. And don't forget that apple has a closed ecosystem so they can build whatever the hell they want without worrying about the technical inertia and legacy baggage the PC platform as a whole is completely built upon.
- bArray 6y ago
  > They wont find anything of interest. I imagine the hackers of tomorrow will reverse engineer the M1 for the same reason they reverse engineer the chips of yesterday - nostalgia. In any case this will be an interesting note in computing history.
smaudet 6y ago
What I feel like a lot of people are ignoring here is that this was a speedup from an underpowered macbook line.... They beefed up core caches a bunch, which likely has a lot more to do with the speedups than any special silicon tricks... People are also ignoring that they have a lot of software infrastructure based around virtualization and auto optimization...its like if the JVM was running at kernel level on a jvm optimized chip with days to perform optimization...of course you would expect that to be blazing fast. Compared to the horror show in Intel land where you have to compile in special support for advanced instructions...