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right, and I don't think the above person was insinuating as much just that a company with large enough pockets like Amazon could take the ARM ISA and do what A
by gigatexal 6y ago
right, and I don't think the above person was insinuating as much just that a company with large enough pockets like Amazon could take the ARM ISA and do what Apple did and make their own custom silicon for their own purposes. Or at least, that's what I hope they are doing.
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoRight, I hadn't meant to imply that Amazon are licensing Apple's ARM chips. I quoted Apple-level-performance CPUs after all, not Apple's CPUs. As you both rightly say, the ARM CPUs Amazon are using are not the same as Apple's. Instead, they are custom built for Amazon. [0][1] [0] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-ec2-instances-a1-powered-by-arm-based-aws-graviton-processors/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-ec2-instances-a1-powere... [1] https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/announcing-new-amazon-ec2-m6g-c6g-and-r6g-instances-powered-by-next-generation-arm-based-aws-graviton2-processors/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/announcin...