Re:SoftBank Group Nears Deal to Buy ARM Holdings
by rwmj on Monday July 18, 2016 @03:30AM
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Apple completely design their own chips. The real mystery is why Apple stuck with the ARM architecture when they switched to 64 bit (since aarch64 is a brand new design). My guess is because they still had to license the 32 bit architecture for compatibility, and because the amount that Apple pays to ARM each year for the license is peanuts.
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Re:SoftBank Group Nears Deal to Buy ARM Holdings
by mtgx on Monday July 18, 2016 @07:38AM
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For the same reason they haven't switched to ARM for macOS yet - compatibility. If Steve Jobs was still alive, he would've probably switched macOS to ARM by now, despite all the hassle. He's done it before. I'm not really seeing Tim Cook pull a move like that anytime soon.