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Besides the screaming anti-trust issues they’d run into, that’s not really Apple’s business model, is it? Selling IP to other companies? I get they would want t
by perardi 6y ago
Besides the screaming anti-trust issues they’d run into, that’s not really Apple’s business model, is it? Selling IP to other companies? I get they would want to control their own ISA, but I can almost imagine them creating their own, versus buying ARM and then being forced to maintain existing licenses.
- klelatti 6y agoExcept they owned almost 50% of Arm in the 1990s and were very supportive of their business model.
- SahAssar 6y agoBack then apple's business was quite different. They licensed their OS, they collaborated on stuff like the pippin, they were not sure if their future was in software or hardware. The apple now is a very different beast.
- perardi 6y agoYup. That was also the Mac clone era of Apple. There is none of that DNA left.
- manquer 6y agoWhy should they continue the ARM model ? . They could shutdown that revenue stream, keeping competitors behind on chip design to justify the huge premium on apple devices is worth that kind of money.