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Sure it helps but does it _have_ to be on a separate chip? In ye olden days when everything else had crashed and was frozen, skype calls still kept working
by orangepanda 3y ago
Sure it helps but does it _have_ to be on a separate chip? In ye olden days when everything else had crashed and was frozen, skype calls still kept working
- michaelt 3y agoHistorically, it's generally been cheaper and easier to have two chips than to persuade a consumer or server OS to provide reliable time guarantees.
- charcircuit 3y agoHypervisors like that already exist and are needed by cloud providers.
- bpye 3y agoWell, even in that context you have AWS for example doing control plane operations on a different SoC - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/security-design-of-aws-nitro-system/the-components-of-the-nitro-system.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/security-desi...
- threeseed 3y agoI think it's more the fact that the M2 chip is used across multiple product lines that don't need the unique capabilities of the R1 chip.
- teaearlgraycold 3y agoI think it makes sense. The parts of the system that need to respond within certain time windows because of physics run in the R1 (presumably, “realtime 1”). Everything else is just an iPad, which currently runs on the M2.