Apple Interview Question: How are microcode and firmware different? Where are they similar?

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

Anonymous

Mar 18, 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.

Anonymous

Mar 10, 2017

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