Subj : Re: Hackintosh
To   : Nightfox
From : Spectre
Date : Thu Apr 21 2022 07:08:00

 2t> Apple could ADD additional instruction sets to the base ARM design, and
 2t> then writing their source code to use those insructions. A regular ARM
 2t> chip would have no idea how to use it.

 Ni> Yeah, I wondered about that.  Apple's customizations that go into their
 Ni> M1 may make it a bit different from a regular ARM processor.

They could but to this point they don't appear to be reinventing the wheel,
just optimising it.  I believe, and once again I can't quote this, it was all
over the place for a while... Apple merely optimised the support chips and
layout adding cache and memory to the die.  Decreasing the fab from 16nm to
5nm process.

So better efficiency, lower power consumption. Otherwise basically the same
bits and pieces as any other ARM processor with support chips.


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