The Long Road to
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A 60-minute iOSDC Japan 2020 session tracing the 13-year evolution of Apple’s SoCs that led to the macOS transition to Apple Silicon in 2020. It covers the technical progression of iOS device silicon and the engineering challenges and efforts behind that evolution.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Apple’s SOC journey
- 2:11Smartphone SOC pricing
- 7:13What is a System on Chip?
- 7:38iPhone to A4 history
- 15:53iPhone 4 Retina GPU
- 20:58A5 to A7 64-bit era
- 25:49Swift CPU architecture
- 32:44A8 to A11 evolution
- 36:28Fusion big.LITTLE
- 39:21A12 Bionic GPU
- 43:20A13 Bionic neural engine
- 45:58Apple Silicon transition
- 47:22iPhone SOC FLOPS
- 51:50Process tech size
- 53:44Apple Silicon for Mac
- 56:16Peripheral chip integration
- 58:27Discrete GPU Mac Pro
- 1:00:17Summary & Q&A
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