How Apple Built a Chip Powerhouse to Threaten Qualcomm and Intel

Re:How Apple Built a Chip Powerhouse to Threaten Qualcomm an... by bitmapbrother on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @03:02PM (#16268492)

>That's because Apple highly customizes and optimizes their core designs, while Qualcom and Samsung use largely vanila ARM reference designs with maybe a few tweaks

Here's the Anandtech article on the "few" tweaks Samsung has made to its 6 wide decode custom M3 cores in the upcoming Exynos 9810.