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Wouldn't Apple design the whole thing internally without needing help from Arm? They have a world-class silicon design team in-house.
by IB885588 8y ago
Wouldn't Apple design the whole thing internally without needing help from Arm? They have a world-class silicon design team in-house.
- nickik 8y agoThey would still have to pay for an ARM license, at least outside of RISC-V.
- gsnedders 8y agoDo we know what Apple is paying? Remember that ARM started as a joint project from Acorn, Apple, and VLSI. Apple certainly held a full architecture license from founding, despite not designing one until comparatively recently, which to me implies there's some specific license. I certainly assume they weren't paying large amounts for a license when relatively poor in the 90s despite holding one.
- CalChris 8y agoApple has an architecture license. I don't know what the terms of the license are but it allows Apple to develop architecture compliant chips. They were one of the original developers of the original ARM and held a large stock position in ARM Ltd. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Computers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Computers