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Softbank to acquire Apple chip designing partner ARM for $32 billion
Because both instruction set and ISA are shorthand for instruction set architecture. You don't need to use an abbreviation for a word which is already shortened. If I were referring to the instructions alone, then I would simply say the instructions.Soli said:
If you believe that the architecture "changes nothing" then you need to ask yourself why the initialism is ISA, not IS. It's ARM's architecture that is valuable to Apple et al. when designing their own chips, but don't disregard ARM's efforts in creating the architecture.awilliams87 said:Adding the word architecture changes nothing. The ISA license only includes specification to ARM ISA...
Nonetheless, it still doesn't change the dubious wording of this article. Apple and Qualcomm chips aren't "customized" (which implies modification from another source). They're designed from scratch.
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Softbank to acquire Apple chip designing partner ARM for $32 billion
Instruction set is simply a shorthand for instruction set architecture. This is how it's commonly used. Adding the word architecture changes nothing. The ISA license only includes specification to ARM ISA (which comes with manuals, test suite, etc). It doesn't include anything else. Both Apple and Qualcomm design their CPUs however they like. They aren't "heavily customized" from ARM, which is what the article sort of implied.Soli said:
1) Reference designs is what ARM licenses. All of ARM's licenses refer to designs.awilliams87 said:"Apple takes ARM's chip knowhow and heavily customizes it to build its own unique A-series processors" Apple doesn't use ARM reference designs; The A-series aren't "heavily customized" processors based on "ARM's chip[s]." They're Apple's own design. Only the instruction set is ARM.
2) Apple uses the Architectural license, which gives them the most control, but also requires the most of amount of work when designing a chip around ARM's instruction set architecture. You can't leave off the word architecture when referring to the instruction set, as it's the architecture of the instruction set—not just a list of instructions—that Apple is paying ARM a lot of money to get their hands on -
Softbank to acquire Apple chip designing partner ARM for $32 billion
"Apple takes ARM's chip knowhow and heavily customizes it to build its own unique A-series processors" Apple doesn't use ARM reference designs; The A-series aren't "heavily customized" processors based on "ARM's chip[s]." They're Apple's own design. Only the instruction set is ARM.
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'Intentional' culture clash between Apple, Beats causes friction, aims to 'create something groundb
$3 billion? Still view this as a ridiculous acquisition.
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Apple loses exclusive rights to 'iPhone' trademark for non-smartphone products in China
Your figures don't indicate that they don't care about privacy.sog35 said:Apple needs to rely less on China for revenue.
How? Services. Period.
Facebook and Google only do advertising and they are worth $800 billion combined.
Tim Cook has to get of his high horse on privacy and start building an Apple advertising empire.
Tim Cook always spews about how important privacy is.
But Apple users don't give a crap.
86% of iOS users use Facebook.
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Facebook-iOS-Android-Google-Apple,news-16588.html
80% of Google's mobile revenue is from iOS users
http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/03/29/google_earns_80_of_its_mobile_revenue_from_ios_just_20_from_android
85% of iOS users use at least one Google service.
All this means that iOS users don't give a crap about privacy. That is why Apple needs to build their advertising empire.
With advertising Apple would not need to rely on a communist state.
