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Correction. Apple's A7 is fabricated by Samsung. It is wholly designed by Apple. They're just using Samsung's foundry.
by gdilla 13y ago
Correction. Apple's A7 is fabricated by Samsung. It is wholly designed by Apple. They're just using Samsung's foundry.
- Mikeb85 13y agoIt's actually mostly designed by ARM holdings. Apple simply designs the SoC layout and chooses the components.
- mendocino 13y agoThe GPU is a design from Imagination Technologies, the CPU is an Apple design. What part of the SoC is "mostly designed by ARM"?
- Mikeb85 13y agoThe CPU. Apple licenses ARM's reference designs, then creates an SoC around that.
- mendocino 13y agoThe last SoC where this has been the case is the A5 (using the the ARM Cortex-A9 MP). The Apple A6 and A7 don't use ARM cores and neither does Qualcomm in their Snapdragon SoCs.
- seabrookmx 13y agoARM just comes up with the instruction set. The cores are still designed by Samsung, Qualcomm, NVidia, etc.