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by Dork1234 1254 days ago
Apple laptop chargers had a 16bit MSP430 microcontroller in them, the same performance as original Macintosh.

Apple Thunderbolt Cables have a ARM chip on each end of the connector.

Every Intel CPU has atleast one smaller x86 core that isn't visible to the user that is running MINIX.This CPU is responsible for MicroCode updates.