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Qualcomm essentially bought the team that created those designs, so it's possible that Qualcomm catches up or exceeds them (although I'm not holding my breath).
by dkjaudyeqooe 3y ago
Qualcomm essentially bought the team that created those designs, so it's possible that Qualcomm catches up or exceeds them (although I'm not holding my breath).
That's probably why ARM is suing them, they potentially could create designs that make ARM's designs obsolete and are likely to take ARM's market (unlike Apple).
- ksec 3y agoThat is the case at all. If ARM were given the same die size budget as Apple's CPU I doubt the difference would be what they are today. Worth pointing out (again) all the ARM Cortex-X design are nearly half the die size as Apple's Performance Core. ARM suing them was simply because they are using a contract tailored for Server market and using it in Smartphone.
- dkjaudyeqooe 3y agoBut ARM tailors their contracts exactly to avoid competition with their own products, I think they've stated that in this lawsuit. Either way, it's bad when the ISA owner is limiting what you can develop to suit its own profits. This is the problem RISC-V solves.