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I'm reasomably sure that Apple does care about the ISA that will soon power 100% (to a reasonable approximation) of its products. My (less than fully clear) poi
by klelatti 6y ago
I'm reasomably sure that Apple does care about the ISA that will soon power 100% (to a reasonable approximation) of its products. My (less than fully clear) point was that there is a strong relationship there and that it's two way.
Sure, Apple has escape routes if things go wrong but it's very very unlikely they will be needed.
- pankajdoharey 6y agoSo What Stops Apple from hiring the ARM Team and design the next generation of big.LITTLE independent of ARM, without actually purchasing ARM the company?
- klelatti 6y agoIf reports are correct they did hire some of the Imagination GPU design team. So they probably could but whilst the relationship is good the best of all worlds is a strong ARM team plus a strong team in-house.
- pankajdoharey 6y agoActually Apple benefits if the ARM Core team isn't very good, the rest of the industry would suffer if Mali GPU's dont get upgrades. Already they are behind iPhones, a poor team at ARM Ensures competition doesn't catchup. But all this might change should NVIDIA buys it and adds their own GPUS to the SOC.
- klelatti 6y agoLots of existing GPU alternatives already - including Nvidia (Tegra) so can't see this as a game changer.
- pankajdoharey 6y agoNvidia Tegra is a rent seeking expensive chip. Nvidia has a habit of stopping people from using certain chips through EULA. None of the car manufacturers are using Nvidia Tegra in their autonomous drives for this reason. Even Tesla which started out with Tegra stopped using it.