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To my knowledge, "Apple Silicon" or what ever you want to call it is an ARM64 ISA, with Apple extensions Third parties have been able to get IOS running in an
by IntelMiner 6y ago
To my knowledge, "Apple Silicon" or what ever you want to call it is an ARM64 ISA, with Apple extensions
Third parties have been able to get IOS running in an emulator for security research and Android(!) has even been ported to the IOS devices that contain the "Checkrain" Boot ROM exploit (though with things like GPU, Wi-Fi etc in varying states of completion)
- fulafel 6y agoISA is just about the instruction set that the silicon is designed to interpret. Aww compatibility does not imply any shared heritage in the silicon between apple and arm LTD cores. Just like AMD and Intel share no silicon design even though they are both sell processors implementing the AMD64 ISA. (The silicon implementation of an isa is referred to as the microarchitecture btw)
- Teknoman117 6y agoRight, but the ARM ISA is covered by various patents, so you have to get a license for it. ARM has aggressively shut down any open efforts to make ARM compatible cores (without licenses).