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by ballenf 2002 days ago
I got a chuckle out of Apple M1 chip touting having shared video memory as a big step forward. (Which it is, but is still amusing to me how it might have sounded like a groundbreaking innovation to a layperson.)
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In the PC industry, that's called UMA and has been around for a few decades, synonymous with ultra-low-cost (and performance) integrated graphics. To hype it so much as a good thing, Apple marketing is really genius.
Apple takes Cue From Original Xbox with Latest Chipset.
Or; Apple takes cue from own Macintosh IIsi from three decades ago?