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I believe they still license the ARM designs and just make changes on top of them. The GPUs are also very much PowerVR-based, even though they aren’t branded th

I believe they still license the ARM designs and just make changes on top of them. The GPUs are also very much PowerVR-based, even though they aren’t branded that way any more. The special hardware for emulation was also mostly debunked. Turns out it’s just a really optimized software emulation layer.

the_lucifer 6y ago
> I believe they still license the ARM designs and just make changes on top of them. Nope. They only license the ISA (Apple has an ARM ISA perpetual license). Apple hasn't used ARM designs since the A6 back in 2012.