Re:Why is Apple's M1 chip so fast?
by simonh on Monday November 30, 2020 @05:01PM
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Qualcomm could come out with an M1 class chip, they have the engineering capability, but if Microsoft or Google don’t adopt it with a custom tuned OS and dev tooling customised for that specific architecture ready from day one, they’d lose a fortune.
The same goes in the other direction. If MS does all the work on ARM windows optimised for one vendor’s experimental chip and the chip vendor messes up or pulls out, they’d be shived. It’s too much risk for a company on either side of the table to wear on their own.
Re:Why is Apple's M1 chip so fast?
by fomine3 on Monday November 30, 2020 @09:31PM
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Sadly Qualcomm won't develop own CPU core anymore since ARMv8 transition. Samsung stopped developing own core. So only ARM's code design is available for mobile.
The same goes in the other direction. If MS does all the work on ARM windows optimised for one vendor’s experimental chip and the chip vendor messes up or pulls out, they’d be shived. It’s too much risk for a company on either side of the table to wear on their own.