Apple Silicon: The Passing of Wintel

Re:Apple Silicon: The Passing of Wintel by vidarh on Monday July 13, 2020 @05:30AM (#23818852)

They have an architecture license. Which means they are free to design their own ARM designs.

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Re:Apple Silicon: The Passing of Wintel by bogomipz on Monday July 13, 2020 @10:58AM (#23821431)

Does the architecture license just allow them to create a CPU that uses the ARM ISA? Or does it include other ARM IP as well?

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Re:Apple Silicon: The Passing of Wintel by dis-sys on Monday July 13, 2020 @08:35AM (#23820061)

limited to an very old architecture no one is using anymore.

ex-ARM employee here.

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Re:Apple Silicon: The Passing of Wintel by vidarh on Monday July 13, 2020 @10:33AM (#23821152)

I thought the point is the architecture license lets them design their own?

Also Intel clearly has some sort of license that covers modern cores as well, given it manufactures FPGA's with various newer ARM cores based on its purchase of Altera.

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