Apple M1 Microarchitecture Research
Hats off to people who do this kind of work. However... *clears throat*<p>I have real trouble using the term "research" for something like this, lumping it together with activities such as "research" in natural science, "research" in anthropology, or even journalistic "research".<p>The difference to me is that this activity could be "done", or rather entirely avoided, if Apple didn't decide to keep it a secret.<p>Mind you, I'm not saying Apple doesn't have good reasons to keep them secret, for some definition of "good". I just think that this person just spent hours upon hours of their life working around a quirk in our current society.<p>I'm aware I'm splitting hairs, but "we don't know what the architecture is" to me is fundamentally different to "we don't know what dark energy is." The former is something that could "easily" be changed, the latter is not. Lumping them together just cements the idea that the systems we built and navigate, for better or worse, are to be treated like natural laws that can't be argued with.<p>/rant