The First 'Apple Silicon': The Aquarius Processor Project

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Cray X-MP .. 128 MB RAM, 38.4 GB Disk, 4-CPU, 800 Mega FLOPS - $15 Million USD

iPhone 16 .. 8GB RAM, 256GB+ Disk, 1 CPU, 6-Core, 2 TeraFLOPS - $699+ USD

An interesting case of “what could have been.” Imagine if they pulled it off and mainstreamed quad core processors in the late 80s!