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"chipmaker ARM, which makes the reference designs for Apple's A-series chips. " ARM does not make the reference designs for the Apple's chips anymore Appleinsider. You guys keep writing that, but it's untrue. They license ARM's ISA, but not the CP…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Damn_Its_Hot Actually ARM only licenses designs, there is no ARM chip, they are ALL fab'd by others. Apple licensed the core then did some cutting out of a bunch of stuff they did not need and replaced some other st…
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They sold off some in the 90's and sold off their remaining investment in 2003.
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"Apple's A7, for example, pairs ARM CPU cores with a GPU from Imagination Technologies" That's not accurate. Apple licensed ARM's ARMv8 instruction set to create their own custom CPU cores in the A7. Only the A5 and A4 used ARM designed cores.