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Tick - New cores; Tock - Scaling up the number of those same cores I think most of the work went into the uncore portions of the SOC this time.
by GeekyBear 5y ago
Tick - New cores;
Tock - Scaling up the number of those same cores
I think most of the work went into the uncore portions of the SOC this time.
- sydthrowaway 5y agouncore?
- als0 5y agoParts of the SoC that are not the main CPUs e.g. power management controllers, display controllers, etc.
- als0 5y agoFYI it's the reverse. "Tock" is a new microarchitecture, and "tick" is a process shrink. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick–tock_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick–tock_model
- GeekyBear 5y agoIn this case, both are using the same CPU core designs and are on the same node. However, they are following the notion of "don't change everything at once".
- lern_too_spel 5y agoAlso, scaling the number of cores up and down for different tasks happens in both. Apple's recent announcement doesn't fit the tick-tock model at all.