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blog-dshr-org-9214		DSHR's Blog: RISC vs. CISC			.html	text/html	3048	397	82	the Mac mini (and its new MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro siblings) has Apple's M1 system-on-a-chip, which includes an 8-core GPU, a CPU with four performance and four efficiency cores, a 16-core neural processing unit (NPU) called the Neural Engine, and a whole bunch of other stuff. According to Apple, each performance core in the M1 qualifies as the world's fastest CPU core to date, while the efficiency cores match the performance of some recent Intel Macs. Engheim explains the two main ways of making CPUs faster using the same process and the same clock rate, multiple cores and out-of-order execution, and their limitations. The biggest, baddest Intel and AMD microprocessor cores have four decoders, which means they can decode four instructions in parallel spitting out micro-ops. Nevertheless, if Micro Magic's customers can deliver multi-core SoC products they should provide much more compute for the same power as current embedded chips.	./cache/blog-dshr-org-9214.html	./txt/blog-dshr-org-9214.txt