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Isn't apple about to design their own cpu? I would be selling arm asap.
by tus88 6y ago
Isn't apple about to design their own cpu? I would be selling arm asap.
- eyesee 6y agoApple has been designing their own CPU's for a decade, using the ARM ISA. Apple has a perpetual license to the ISA though, so they would not be a source of future revenue. Apple is also under no obligation to stick with ARM's roadmap for future products.
- giancarlostoro 6y agoThis is something I have wondered about and had no idea they basically had some sort of perpetual license. Is this normal for ARM to give out such a license? Or are all ARM licenses basically typically under those conditions? I know ARM mostly just licenses specs to their chips.
- NetBeck 6y agoApple + Acorn Computers = ARM[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Computers#ARM_Ltd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Computers#ARM_Ltd.
- jannes 6y agoARM is a joint venture that Apple started with Acorn and VLSI. Article from 1990: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-11-28-fi-4993-story.html https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-11-28-fi-4993-s...
- giancarlostoro 6y agoWow I had no idea, now a lot of things make more sense to me about why Apple is going the route they are. I honestly wish them nothing but success. Part of me hopes they license their own chips down the line. The Intel monopoly over desktop systems needs to end.
- unionpivo 6y agoNot under current market. Apple got as big as it is by vertically integrating everything and creating walled gardens.
- tus88 6y agoI know that, I meant their own new CPU with their own ISA. I am sure I read about that a while back.
- jecel 6y agoLike the Scorpius (1989)? https://archive.org/details/scorpius_architecture https://archive.org/details/scorpius_architecture