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They’re designing their own chips, including their own CPU core (which implements the ARM instruction set). TSMC actually fabs them though. There may be some an
by mrpippy 6y ago
They’re designing their own chips, including their own CPU core (which implements the ARM instruction set). TSMC actually fabs them though.
There may be some ancillary cores or blocks licensed from ARM, but nothing major.
- tedk-42 6y agoIthought so. Full credit to apple then for pioneering this effort. I appreciate some commenters saying the raspberry helped, but really it's apple who are the taking a big step forward with popularising a third player in the CPU space. Unless they are willing to sell their chipsets, I doubt it will affect consumer products much outside of their own ecosystem. Again nothing exciting for ARM, but more the future of apple chips
- Symmetry 6y agoThey definitely design the CPU but I wonder if they licence any IP for things like USB controllers or such? That would mean using ARM standard interfaces inside the chip and I can see upsides and downsides.