Saturday, December 4, 2021

Apple, The M3, The M1, And AWS -- December 4, 2021

M3: Apple's chipmaking partner TSMC has kicked off pilot production chips built on its 3-nm process, known as N3. Previously posted. Link here.

Instant! AWS and the M1 Mac mini: link here. To better understand this jargon, read the social media comments at the linked story.

Amazon today announced that its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service is now offering a "preview" of M1 Mac mini instances in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) regions of U.S. East and U.S. West, with other regions to be available when the instances are fully released.

An "instance" is a virtual server available for rent through Amazon's EC2 service for running apps on AWS infrastructure. Intel-based Mac mini instances were already available since last year, but M1 models will provide improved performance, allowing developers building apps for the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV to benefit from faster builds.

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