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This is where Apple really adds value and why they have their own silicon design teams. Some of the blocks: -- M7 motion chip -- Image processing chip to sup
by MCRed 12y ago
This is where Apple really adds value and why they have their own silicon design teams.
Some of the blocks:
-- M7 motion chip
-- Image processing chip to support camera
-- (I suspect) audio processing chip to do compression and feature extraction for SIRI
-- (suspect) video codec (though this may be done by GPU)
-- Secure Enclave -- CPU with secure data, random number generator, Apple Pay support, Fingerprint Sensor support
-- (I suspect) memory management units and io co-processors and the like that are too mundane to get much public mention
- nilsimsa 12y agoThe motion chip is a separate package.
- joezydeco 12y agoChipworks decapped the M7 on the iphone5 and found it to be a custom model of the LPC18xx from NXP http://www.chipworks.com/en/technical-competitive-analysis/resources/blog/inside-the-iphone-5s/ http://www.chipworks.com/en/technical-competitive-analysis/r... http://www.nxp.com/products/microcontrollers/cortex_m3/lpc1800/ http://www.nxp.com/products/microcontrollers/cortex_m3/lpc18...
- makomk 12y agoHardware video codec support is almost always a seperate module, yeah, as are audio processing and video input/output.
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