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Apple uses the ARM ISA. It doesn't use ARM IP - as in, the design of the chip. Apple designed their own damn chip! Since they're not branding it as ARM in any
by spacedcowboy 6y ago
Apple uses the ARM ISA. It doesn't use ARM IP - as in, the design of the chip. Apple designed their own damn chip!
Since they're not branding it as ARM in any way, shape, or form, and they have a perpetual architectural license to the ISA, I suspect they could do pretty much what they please - as long as they don't call it ARM. Which they don't.
- pas 6y agoDuring the design were they careful not to create any derivative works of arm IP and/or not to infringe on any of arm's patents?
- spacedcowboy 6y agoApple co-founded the company. I imagine that they have a right to that IP. Even if not, then yes, I would imagine that a behemoth of IP design like Apple would probably have considered IP rights during that design...
- floatboth 6y agoThey definitely call it ARM in developer tools and technical documents.
- scarface74 6y agoI doubt that will be true going forward. They first used the “Apple Silicon” branding for the Mac and yesterday they used the branding for the Watch and iPad (?)