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Re:Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B by wyldfire on Sunday September 13, 2020 @10:46PM (#24466253)
Qualcomm used to design their own cores up until the last generation or two, but you're right they use the reference designs now.

EDIT: correction, make that the last generation or four (oops, time flies)

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Re:Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B by kllrnohj on Sunday September 13, 2020 @11:13PM (#24466391)
Qualcomm hasn't used an in-house core design since 2015 with the original Kryo. Everything Kryo 2xx and newer are based on Cortex.
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Re:Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B by awill on Monday September 14, 2020 @03:52AM (#24467830)
That was a really sad time honestly. QCOMM went from leading the pack to basically using reference designs (which they still arrogantly brand as Kryo despite essentially being a tweak of a reference design.

It all happened because Apple came out with the first 64-bit design, and QCOMM wasn't ready. Rather than deliver 32-bit for 1 more year, they used an off the shelf ARM 64-bit design (A57) in their SoC called the Snapdragon 810, and boy was it terrible.

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Re:Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B by himinlomax on Monday September 14, 2020 @05:26AM (#24468280)
From what I gathered, they made at least _some_ risky architecture choices in their custom architecture that turned out not to be sustainable over the next generations. Also note that their Cortex core is indeed customized to a significant extent.
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