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AphoticD

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Just spotted this pleasant surprise in my Mac App Store updates giving mention to our old PowerPC's:

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Browsing through this newly added dimension shows the PowerPC G3 processor kicked off at a 250nm manufacturing process, scaling down to 130nm on the later G4s and G5s.

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This is now a 5nm process on Apple Silicon. How small can we go?
 
I don’t see it on any G4 model yet. Maybe in a later release. Not worried as I know this takes a lot of work to do this.
 
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