Through the Ages: Apple CPU Architecture
This is the tale of the 4 Ages of Apple CPU Architecture. Each chapter, however, also serves as a framing device for fundamental CPU concepts. If Android is more your thing, you are free to jump between sections at will like an overclocked instruction pointer. I’m no evangelist, but it doesn’t take a fanboy to acknowledge that Apple is an impressive company.
They invented the most successful product in the history of capitalism, and subsequently became the first business to hit a $1T market cap. Through hit products like the iPod, unparalleled branding, and the reality distortion field of Steve Jobs, they even managed to make tech cool. Behind this impressive execution is a borderline-obsessive hardware optimisation: Since the Mac was released in 1984, Apple has migrated its CPU architecture three times.
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