Innovations and Efficiency Cores in Apple Chips

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Exploring the potential of the m3 family chip without efficiency cores and the historical context of Apple's top-end chips offering more cores for multi-threaded operations. Rumors about upcoming chips on the n3e process are also discussed for higher yields.

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  - Hector Martin found the “chicken bit”
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  - DMP
- Y’all don’t read the show notes, huh? 😏
  - LG DualUp Monitor
- An 🎵 accidental 🎵 rant about the state of podcasting today
  - DAI
- Would a M3-family chip really have no efficiency cores? (via Matthaus Woolard)
  - Max Tech’s take on “M4 Ultra” rumors
  - Reticle limits
    - NVIDIA GH100 GPU
- Apple laying off 700+ workers
  - MacRumors
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- Apple’s in-box iPhone “Presto” flashing machine
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