I’m an Apple fanboy, having used and owned Macs since the late-1980s, but I’m not alone in thinking that Apple silicon processors have placed Apple in a unique position to embed AI within their product ranges.
I appreciate that this is the story of ARM and Apple but it might be worth pointing out that the Apple Mac's initial success was in no small part due to its use of Motorola's fully 16 bit chips, rather than Intel's 16 bit address, but only 8 bit data bus chips which required 2 fetches per instruction.
Yes, very much so. The article I link to in the footnotes discusses this, plus Apple's various transitions between processors, in a lot of detail. It's been quite a ride for the dedicated Apple fanboy! A highly recommended read: https://jacobbartlett.substack.com/p/through-the-ages-apple-cpu-architecture
Talking of things falling off trees... there was also Apricot Computers.
I appreciate that this is the story of ARM and Apple but it might be worth pointing out that the Apple Mac's initial success was in no small part due to its use of Motorola's fully 16 bit chips, rather than Intel's 16 bit address, but only 8 bit data bus chips which required 2 fetches per instruction.
Yes, very much so. The article I link to in the footnotes discusses this, plus Apple's various transitions between processors, in a lot of detail. It's been quite a ride for the dedicated Apple fanboy! A highly recommended read: https://jacobbartlett.substack.com/p/through-the-ages-apple-cpu-architecture