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Maybe/maybe not (we don't know how identical the A18 chip is to what shipped in the iPhone) - but it does determine that the virtualization stuff that was added
by bombcar 8mo ago
Maybe/maybe not (we don't know how identical the A18 chip is to what shipped in the iPhone) - but it does determine that the virtualization stuff that was added to the M1 (in the era of the A14) has now moved over to the A series, at least enough to support macOS.
- the_real_cher 8mo agoThats pretty cool.
- MBCook 8mo agoSpeculation I’ve heard from Ben Thompson of Stratechery is this machine is, in part, a way to get value out of iPhone Pro chips that had defects. The Neo has a 5 core GPU. The iPhone 16 Pro had a 6 core. So, if he’s correct, these are the same exact chip. Just with a fault in one GPU core or one GPU core disabled if it was good. That lets them use extra chips they already made that would have gone to waste, at least until they run out. Which would mean they both would have identical abilities, assuming no software lock for segmentation purposes. It’s all supposition. But it make a lot of business sense.
- the_real_cher 8mo agoWhat a cool and smart way to utilize those chips! It would explain why they picked such an arbitrary number of cores.