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Apple reportedly planning three more Macs with its own chips inside them
Apple plans to put custom processors inside at least three more Macs by the end of the year, according to Bloomberg. There are no details on what the chips will be used for, but the report says they'll appear in updated laptops and a new desktop.
Though Apple has been making custom chips for its phones, tablets, and wearables for years now, the company is only just starting to bring its house-made chips to the Mac. That started in a small way in 2016 with the high-end MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, which included a chip that was used to run the Touch Bar and Touch ID. Then last month, Apple included a custom chip inside the iMac Pro that handled, among other things, audio, camera processing, and encryption.
The Bloomberg article includes a detailed history of Apple's chip designs.
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(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Wednesday January 31 2018, @09:47AM
Nope, Spectre is exploitable on pretty much all superscalar chips.
Nope, Intel patented the technique that turns out to be vulnerable to Meltdown and the patent only expired recently. ARM's Cortex A-75 appears to be the only non-Intel chip vulnerable to Meltdown as a result (yay, patents!).
You mean, aside from the fact that they're both timing attacks that work by exploiting speculatively executed instructions to disclose the contents of memory?
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