The cores in the M1 and the chip itself are thoroughly Apple designs, and work hand-in-glove with macOS using techniques like out-of-order execution and hints to optimise performance.
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Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Incomplete instruction to […]
On Intel Macs, resetting the SMC was a universal panacea until the T2 came along. What can we do instead with an M1 Mac?
Installing two different versions of macOS within a single container brings flexibility as they share free space, a little economy maybe, and complexity – explained here.
Complete step-by-step instructions for installing a new copy of macOS to an external disk, making it bootable. For Intel and M1 Macs of all flavours.
Memory, support for multiple external displays, bootable external disks, macOS updates, kernel panics, more ports, and more choice of macOS to install are on my list.
Summary and links for the latest information about what’s in the current M1 chip, from differences in caches between cores, to the Matrix Coprocessor and Fabric limitations.
Apple has just pushed two updates, to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 113. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Amber […]
How ARM64 uses its special SIMD registers in lanes, and how they can be loaded with and without de-interleaving.
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