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What's sad here is that a proprietary, "walled garden" style vendor like Apple is the one who decided to push TSMC/ARM like this. It's not like there's magic Ap
by JeremyNT 5y ago
What's sad here is that a proprietary, "walled garden" style vendor like Apple is the one who decided to push TSMC/ARM like this. It's not like there's magic Apple smoke in there.
It didn't have to be this way. We could have had a good AMD ARM platform instead. But they, like Intel, had become complacent (and this despite their position as fighting for Intel's table scraps in the x86-64 world). The failure to take risks leaves us all worse off.
Intel needs to exist, if only to prevent a TSMC monopoly at this point, but what good is AMD if they can't even compete with Apple when outsourcing to TSMC?
- nebula8804 5y agoI doubt AMD lacks the engineering talent to knock out a spectacular ARM chip but we also have to consider that a few years ago they were running on fumes, near bankruptcy. Didn't they also have to sell their HQ and then rent the building out? With that pressure they cannot sit around and take a risk on a long term unknown that did not guarantee returns. Maybe today they can pursue this path(I bet they are experimenting internally). I recall some quote by Lisa Su that they are open to other arch long term.