Three of Apple and Google’s former star chip designers launch NUVIA

Re:Three of Apple and Google’s former star chip designers la... by als0 on Saturday November 23, 2019 @06:07AM (#21613539)

The vector extensions would need to be finished before that can happen.

As a side note, a couple of jobs on their careers page seem to want ARM assembly experience...so it's likely to be an ARM core?

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Re:Three of Apple and Google’s former star chip designers la... by tyingq on Saturday November 23, 2019 @07:21AM (#21613767)

Yeah, they mostly avoid being specific, but there's a few ARM callouts on their job listings, like:

"Knowledge of library cells and optimizations from ARM, TSMC, and other high performance library vendors"

"Familiarity with coherent bus protocols like ARM AMBA and CHI bus protocols"

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Re:Three of Apple and Google’s former star chip designers la... by csboyer on Saturday November 23, 2019 @09:43AM (#21614324)

Even without ARM, I can see them using AMBA or AXI for the bus because there is so much existing IP out there built to that interface.

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Re:Three of Apple and Google’s former star chip designers la... by monocasa on Saturday November 23, 2019 @04:18PM (#21616622)

And they're fairly emblematic of modern SoC bus protocols. You'll be fine jumping to TileLink or whatever if you're used to AMBA/AXI.

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