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  • Zuckerberg knocks rumored 'Apple Glass' tech, says HUDs are like 'putting an Apple Watch o...

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    iqatedo said:
    Zuckerberg seems intent on being the modern equivalent to Ballmer...
    Exactly!  He does not know how to compete so he bad mouths an unreleased product.
    This is the same guy who sold the Facebook user DBs to Cambridge Analytica.


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  • Apple's wearable AR hardware ambitions may not start with 'Apple Glass'

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    Apple AR has already started BIG time with the iPad Pro with LiDAR.
    Remember PrimeSense and Metaio ?  Apple bought them both.  :)

    Metaio in 2011...

    PrimeSense in 2013
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  • Nvidia buying ARM for record-breaking $40 billion

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    Unless Nvidia and Qualcomm can produce enough chips using the ARM micro architecture and instruction set architecture ( ISA ) to out gun Intel and AMD for desktops, laptops and servers, this will be a big mistake and SoftBank knows it.  All the big dogs like Apple, have their own micro architecture designs and only license the ISA from ARM.

    Today, Apple has the best and most advanced custom designs by far...

    The Apple CPUs are likely based on the PWRficient POWER PC design from P.A. Semi which Apple acquired in 2008.  The micro architecture design was by Daniel W. Dobberpulh of DEC Alpha and StrongARM fame.   PA Semi initially licensed the POWER PC ISA from IBM but switched to the ARM ISA after Apple bought them.  That design was further enhanced with Apple's purchase of Intrinsity in 2010. 

    From Wikipedia 
    “Intrinsity’s main selling point was its Fast14 technology, a set of design tools implemented in custom EDAsoftware, for using dynamic logic and novel signal encodings to permit greater processor speeds in a given process than naive static design can offer.”

    Here is a PA Semi presentation on the PWRficient processor. 
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  • ARM deal nears closure with Nvidia mulling $40B purchase from SoftBank

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    I believe Apple licenses the ISA and not the Micro Architecture from ARM. 

    The Apple CPUs are probably based on an efficient POWER PC design from P.A. Semi which Apple acquired in 2008.  The micro architecture design was by Daniel W. Dobberpulh of DEC Alpha and StrongARM fame.   PA Semi initially licensed the POWER PC ISA from IBM.  That design was further enhanced with the purchase of Intrinsity in 2010 by Apple. 

    From Wikipedia 
    “Intrinsity’s main selling point was its Fast14 technology, a set of design tools implemented in custom EDAsoftware, for using dynamic logic and novel signal encodings to permit greater processor speeds in a given process than naive static design can offer.”

    Here is a presentation from pa semi. 
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozaf1-EIafk




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  • Apple not interested in takeover of Arm Holdings, report claims [u]

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    Purchasing all or part of ARM Holdings will save Apple some instruction set licensing fees in the long term.

    https://youtu.be/wgEKDGNjqsk


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