are Infineon Aurix (TriCore) chips. These are mostly 20+ year old technology for vehicles with electrical systems based on the AUTOSAR stack. The automotive industry has collectively refused to move beyond this stack despite its inability to scale effectively for the demands of modern cars. There really isn't anything these chips are doing that cannot be done with ASIL certified lockstep ARM chips, but the investment in AUTOSAR makes it a huge pain for these companies to rework their development methods and electrical architectures. They also don't have the right kind of software engineers to handle such a transition.

They are also derived from 20 year old DaimlerChrysler IP. Chargers and Challengers print money for Stellantis because they havenâ(TM)t required any serious engineering for years.

It is a completely different storage concept from m.2 NVMe. The NAND controller is in the SoC itself, along with the encryption keys. The NAND chips are just raw flash.

It was not that long ago that Roku and Netflix actually shared office space on Winchester in Los Gatos. Netflix opened up their new campus on the other side of 85, and then Roku moved to Saratoga.

He is not entirely right about iOS updates. They are distributed as differential images within a major release. When an iOS device contacts the software update server, it requests the image for the diff of whatever version it has and latest.

More specifically, Touch Bar exists because they originally used a Watch SIP for T1, which has a display controller, and at the time iOS (and itâ(TM)s forks) could not boot correctly without a display.

Because Apple has a perpetual ARM architecture license. This provides a solid foundation to design processors on (which is exactly what they did for the first 64-bit chips) as well as a toolchain. This is a LOT easier than trying to reinvent the wheel.

They did not care about UX on the Touch Bar. There was only ever one purpose for the Touch Bar: to prove they could make an ARM based Mac. Modern Apple has always used weird features as a proving ground for future technologies. The route we took to an ARM Mac is weird, but bear with me here.

2013: Apple releases it own, in-house designed ARM64 processor, over a year before anyone else, in the iPhone 5S. This iPhone includes something Apple called a âoemotion coprocessorâ. This was used to prove capabilities for the Watch.
2015: Apple Watch is released, using a system-on-package design, incorporating all hardware into a single chip package. The system runs a feature complete fork of iOS.
2016: the T1 chip is released as the Touch Bar controller. This is a cut down 2nd generation Apple Watch SIP that replaced the SMC and enabled Touch ID.
2017: the T2 chip is released as a 2nd generation Touch Bar controller. This however is far more powerful, an iPhone 7 SoC. System tasks from macOS are offloaded to bridgeOS running on the T2, most hardware on the system is abstracted by the T2, and storage is controlled by the T2.
2020: Apple releases M1 and moves everything else over to homegrown silicon.

This company is so successful because they play the long game and take the time to conceptualize, prototype, test, and then release products profitably.

99% of the time there is lint in the female connector. Use a pushpin or straight pin (or SIM tool) to break up compacted lint at the back of the connector, drag it to the sides, and pull it out.

Apple is part of the USB-IF, they literally helped invent the USB-C standard.

There is a significant amount of financial, scientific, and engineering software that was written for the old Unixes, including Solaris, that will never be ported to Linux. It is cheaper and safer for users of this software to stay on SPARC/Solaris systems.

In 2008, I still had a Sun Ultra 1 C3D and SGI Iris Indigo on my desk at work in an engineering company because we had to support our customers on those platforms.

Kazakhstan lands on YOU.

Lol, of course after I post this, mod points come back, I get modded troll, and then receive 5 mod points.

Where have all the mod points gone?

At least with my experiences in the EU, your biometric data is never stored anywhere other than in your identity documents. E.g. if you need replacement documents, you have to get photographed or fingerprinted again.