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> Apple designs their own cores and Qualcomm is starting to. Qualcomm already did for many years! The Snapdragon line from 2008-2016 used custom Scorpion/Krait
by Marsymars 2y ago
> Apple designs their own cores and Qualcomm is starting to.
Qualcomm already did for many years! The Snapdragon line from 2008-2016 used custom Scorpion/Krait/Kryo cores before they went to Cortex A73 cores in the Snapdragon 835.
- adrian_b 2y agoQualcomm have designed their own CPU cores for some years, but their design capacity could not keep up with the Arm company, so, exactly like Samsung and NVIDIA, they have given up and they have started to use the CPU cores designed by the Arm company, already for many years. Only now, after buying the Nuvia CPU design team, they have begun to use again their own CPU core designs, first in the laptops introduced a few months ago and then presumably also in the smartphones of next year. While many companies have designed Arm cores, only Apple has consistently outperformed the Arm company and now Qualcomm might have a chance to do that, with a team that includes many former Apple designers. The server Arm cores that have been demonstrated until now by the Ampere company are not impressive, being weaker than the Arm-designed cores used by Amazon or Microsoft.