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History will tell, but I have a bad feeling about "Apple Silicon". They would not use that naming if they intended to support the official ARM ISA in the long
by stephc_int13 4y ago
History will tell, but I have a bad feeling about "Apple Silicon".
They would not use that naming if they intended to support the official ARM ISA in the long run.
The only thing that would prevent them for going the proprietary route is if they can't.
- skavi 4y agoApple Silicon is no different from Qualcomm Snapdragon or Samsung Exynos.
- aesh2Xa1 4y agoDoes Apple license theirs to other platforms?
- kmeisthax 4y agoNo, and given ARM's hostility to Qualcomm's acquisition of Nuvia they probably would pitch a fit if Apple started selling silicon to third-parties.
- AprilArcus 4y agoI suspect, given Apple's pivotal role in founding ARM holdings, that they have as close to carte blanche with respect to the ARM IP as one could imagine.
- komadori 4y agoHuh, I hadn't realised Apple had been one of the investors when ARM Holdings was spun out of Acorn Computers. It seems their interest was in the Newton using ARM chips.
- skavi 4y agoI was referring to branding. To clarify my point, I believe having branding separate from Arm’s does not substantially indicate a desire to move away from Arm.
- catach 4y ago> They would not use that naming if they intended to support the official ARM ISA in the long run. Given Apple's marketing priorities, my guess is that the intent you speak of had zero weight in their naming decisions either way. They have no interest in raising the profile of ARM chips in general, and every interest in promoting their specific chips as amazing.