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Apple uses more die area for their chips. So it wouldn’t be cost competitive with what Qualcomm and Samsung ship.

• deaddodo 7y ago
  This is it. Apple follows a mobile methodology for their chip designs (tall: very powerful, large size cores) while Qualcomm, Samsung, etc follow an embedded methodology (wide: many small efficient cores). On top of that, Apple has some great CPU engineers who've worked on the 68k and POWER architectures which they've leveraged against their ARM design. They're also the only consumers of their CPUs which allows them to design them against their use cases and optimize for them exclusively. While I'm a big fan of ARM in general, the only other chips really competing against Apple in it's performance + efficiency are nVidia's Denver cores and the ThunderX2; for similar reasons. Not that Qualcomm or Samsung's chips are bad by any means; just different.
  • floatboth 7y ago
    Would be amazing if Apple made an ARM Xserve :D
  • aey 7y ago
    I wish Qualcomm took all that legal revenue and converted it into a fab. They are basically limiting their upside now. Patent licensing for wireless standards has to be "fair". If the LTE/5g patents were open, they could charge the max possible amount for a fully integrated arm + modem core optimized down to the material science.