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Over the last year or so Mac users have run into problems that appear related to a background service named triald. Some report it stealing huge amounts of CPU, others associate it with various glitches, and a few have noticed … Read more
After yesterday’s explanation of the Apple Neural Engine (ANE) in M1 series Macs, it’s time to go in search of this elusive part of Apple Silicon chips, and discover how it’s used. So far, all I have seen of the … Read more
There’s a clear link between Monterey’s Visual Look Up (VLU) feature and Apple’s proposals last summer to introduce the detection of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) in images. Don’t misread that into thinking that VLU is the thin end of … Read more
Visual Look Up might have come as a surprise in Monterey 12.3, but it’s been brewing for a good while. It’s the next step beyond facial recognition and the extraction of text from images. It was almost announced last summer … Read more
Yesterday, I gave some preliminary results from further testing of the performance of Efficiency (E or Icestorm) cores in original M1 and new M1 Pro chips, in which I showed how the M1 Pro’s two E cores can match the … Read more
We’ve come to assume that what we see in the Unified Log tells us what macOS is doing, once the system has been loaded by firmware. While that’s largely correct for Intel Macs running UEFI firmware, and what the T2 … Read more
Inside pretty well every folder that you’ve ever opened is a hidden file, one which even showing hidden files doesn’t reveal: .DS_Store. As with other under-the-hood features which Apple really doesn’t want you to know about, you’ll only come across … Read more
If you’ve read the excellent performance analyses already published by AnandTech and others, by now you’re probably thinking that the CPU cores in the M1 Pro and Max are among the less innovative parts of the M1 Pro and Max … Read more
If you’ve read the excellent performance analyses already published by AnandTech and others, by now you’re probably thinking that the CPU cores in the M1 Pro and Max are among the less innovative parts of the M1 Pro and Max … Read more
Apple is heavily committed to asymmetric multiprocessing (AMP) in its own chips, and in future Macs, iPhones and iPads. With four ‘Firestorm’ performance and four ‘Icestorm’ efficiency cores in its M1 SoC, several researchers have been working to establish the … Read more