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Leaving aside the merits of the two ISAs, for Apple using ARM for the M1 had the huge advantage unifying all their devices to a single ISA. Based on just that
by afiori 4y ago
Leaving aside the merits of the two ISAs, for Apple using ARM for the M1 had the huge advantage unifying all their devices to a single ISA.
Based on just that (and the fact that they own a perpetual license to all things ARM) they would likely make the same choice now and even in a couple of years.
- snvzz 4y ago>for Apple using ARM for the M1 had the huge advantage unifying all their devices to a single ISA. Wait, let me read that again. Oh, so you're saying that Apple wants to unify their ISA... by switching their already ARM smaller/hidden cores to RISC-V? Yeah, it does not make sense to me, either.
- afiori 4y agoNo I am saying that even if RISC-V was strictly better than ARM Apple would have likely still chosen ARM for the M1 generation as it would be the simplest way to unify their ISAs across their devices.