Apple interview question

How are microcode and firmware different? Where are they similar?

Interview Answers

Anonymous

18 Mar 2009

Sort of a "where does the code live" question. Not sure why they asked it, since it had nothing to do with the position being offered.

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Anonymous

10 Mar 2017

Firmware is software that handles internal functions of the system like sensor processing Microcode is firmware for the microprocessor

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