Accidental Tech Podcast

407: It Isn't a Big Grapefruit

12.03.2020 - By Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John SiracusaPlay

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Pre-show: You heard it here first: Marco is really starting to justify a new Mac.

Follow-up:

You can restore stuff from iCloud here (via Ryan Fegley)

Accelerated TensorFlow for macOS probably just uses the GPU

Neural Engine can be used as well, though. (via @hishnash)

Apple did make an ECC RAM controller in the past (via Max Lein)

Lots of info about scaling the M1 via Jonathan Dietz

Die size spreadsheet

Cerebras, the big-die ML accelerator (via Andrew Bunner)

Memory bus thoughts from Wade Tregaskis

Memory interface bandwidth

Dual M1 Macs

“Low-effort” Mac Pro

TMSC Achieves Breakthrough in 2nm Manufacturing

What is “risk production”?

Alexander Graf virtualizes ARM Windows on Apple Silicon

9to5Mac

QEMU

Marco’s Mini Monologues

Smart Speaker Size Comparison (scroll down a bit)

Panzarino’s observation about Qi chargers

…and his FU

#askatp

Is it possible to disable the fan on the new M1 MacBook Pro? (via Matthew Taylor)

CoolBook

TG Pro

What’s our deal with Apple News+ anyway? (via Bryan Hoffman)

Component Motherboards : SoC :: ICE : Electric Cars? (via Kevin Doran)

VLSI

VHF / UHF

Post-show:

Yes, John is aware of breadboxes.

Tesla’s “Mission Accomplished”

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