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by kylec 971 days ago
I'm sure the chip designers at Apple know the exact number, but that doesn't mean Apple's going to share it
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I wonder if they even do. I'm sure they could theoretically compute it... but is it something that is ever actually computed?

It seems sort of like asking a programmer how many instructions there are in a binary we maintain. We could find out if we decided it mattered.

It's a one liner in Virtuoso (hard IPs aside). I doubt anyone memorized the exact number but it's definitely not some unknown or hard to figure out quantity.