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ISAs are consolidating sure, but the interesting parts of the chips are also consolidating. A few years ago several companies were designing new Arm cores; now
by gok 7y ago
ISAs are consolidating sure, but the interesting parts of the chips are also consolidating. A few years ago several companies were designing new Arm cores; now it's pretty much just Arm and Apple.
- rrss 7y agoThere are still other companies doing new core designs: Huawei/HiSilicon (Taishan v110 in 2019), Marvell/Cavium (Thunder X2 in 2018), Samsung (M4 in 2019), Fujitsu (A64FX is 2019), Nvidia (carmel in 2018). If you count semi-custom cores derived from ARM designs, then add Ampere Computing and Qualcomm as well.
- gok 7y agoIn the server space that's true, Arm cores are proliferating. But Samsung shut their core group down and Qualcomm is moving that direction.