Comment on Apple Silicon M1 Die-ShotsComments−Waterluvian5yWhat's all the stuff that isn't annotated with a yellow rectangle?−deaddodo5yThis is a SoC, not a CPU. The majority of the non-annotated is glue logic, I/O, etc.−bullen5yThat's alot of glue! I would say ~50%! What is the system cache? nm, see question below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25547796−Synaesthesia5yIt has a lot of roles. You have memory controllers, i/o controllers. Not sure if the SSD controllers is also part of it. Then the dedicated video encode/decode the image processing the neural engine. There's a lot of features.−RantyDave5yIt lists the nvme drive as being attached to "Apple Fabric" so that sounds like an internal bus of some description....
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What's all the stuff that isn't annotated with a yellow rectangle?
This is a SoC, not a CPU. The majority of the non-annotated is glue logic, I/O, etc.
That's alot of glue! I would say ~50%! What is the system cache? nm, see question below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25547796
It has a lot of roles. You have memory controllers, i/o controllers. Not sure if the SSD controllers is also part of it. Then the dedicated video encode/decode the image processing the neural engine. There's a lot of features.
It lists the nvme drive as being attached to "Apple Fabric" so that sounds like an internal bus of some description....