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0 pointsganbatekudasai4y ago0 comments

The CPUs are designed and made by Apple, the ISA is licensed from ARM. Those are not like ARM Cortex CPUs that are actually designed by ARM.

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kllrnohj4y ago

Where do you see these are Apple designed CPUs? There doesn't seem to be anything indicating that, and that would be massive news.

ganbatekudasaiOP4y ago

Err sorry, I thought we were talking about the Apple M1 as in another comment subthread here, but that wasn't this one actually.

But my point still stands I think, isn't this CPU designed by Nvidia, also just with an ARM-licensed ISA? Similarly AMD you mentioned in your list shares its ISA with Intel, and yet the CPUs are completely different.

Veedrac4y ago

The CPU is custom but the cores are off-the-shelf Arm cores.

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