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Apple has a perpetual license on the ARM instruction set, so they just pay a royalty per chip. Apple owning ARM would be a massive problem for regulators, as th
by burnte 6y ago
Apple has a perpetual license on the ARM instruction set, so they just pay a royalty per chip. Apple owning ARM would be a massive problem for regulators, as they'd be the sole source of chips to their competition.
MS and Google don't make chips, and MS doesn't even license any ARM tech (I don't think, they just make software and buy CPUs, they don't make any). They're a bad fit. Google's dipping their toes in it, but I don't think they're doing fully custom silicon. Most companies buy the rights and layouts, and tweak those layouts.
NVidia makes chips, but they don't make many mobile chips, and virtually no chips for phones compared to Samsung and Qualcomm. They're a better fit.
- ejdyksen 6y agoMicrosoft has had an architectural license for quite some time: https://www.eetimes.com/microsoft-takes-arm-architectural-license/ https://www.eetimes.com/microsoft-takes-arm-architectural-li...
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- tambre 6y ago> MS and Google don't make chips MS designed and produced custom silicon for HoloLens 2 (the Holographic Processing Unit 2.0) [0][1]. The Microsoft SQ1 in Surface Pro X is probably also produced by them, though the design is in collaboration with Qualcomm. [0] https://www.hotchips.org/hc31/HC31_2.14_Terry_Microsoft_Aug20.pdf https://www.hotchips.org/hc31/HC31_2.14_Terry_Microsoft_Aug2... [1] https://youtu.be/IjxpMZUqu6c?t=3814 https://youtu.be/IjxpMZUqu6c?t=3814
- kevingadd 6y agoThe chipset in the Nintendo Switch is a mobile chipset by NVidia.
- burnte 6y agoYes yes, there are outliers which is why I didn't make a blanket statement NVidia doesn't make anything mobile.
- monocasa 6y agoGoogle has been making TPUs and similar high end chips, in addition to their Titan chips. I wouldn't be surprised if they make their own networking chips.