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The M1 chip is a good example of where vertical integration is helpful. My understanding is that apple spent considerable effort on baking into silicon the abi
by rmah 6y ago
The M1 chip is a good example of where vertical integration is helpful. My understanding is that apple spent considerable effort on baking into silicon the ability to do some common memory-management related OSX/iOS low-level operations. For a chip vendor that sells to a broader market, this is probably not worth the effort. That said, there are, of course, also downsides to stronger vertical integration.
- 908B64B197 6y ago> My understanding is that apple spent considerable effort on baking into silicon the ability to do some common memory-management related OSX/iOS low-level operations. I think they profiled these operations easily and made sure that they were cheap to execute on their CPU but I'm not certain there's dedicated silicon for that.
- angry_octet 6y agoAdditionally, I can't think of anything that would be useful for MacOS (Mach related or not) that wouldn't also help other operating systems.