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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by bombcar on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @03:47PM (#26960585)
Each individual risk Apple takes is small - they didn’t develop the M1 from scratch; they have years of iPhone and iPad processor development under their belt.
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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by jimbokun on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @06:38PM (#26962830)
The risk of Apple deciding to design their own chips was massive.
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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by cma on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @04:32PM (#26961129)
Apple started working with ARM in the 80s, eventually used in the Newton. I don't know that they did design directly, but they influenced the changes that became ARM6.
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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by berkeleyjunk on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @10:18AM (#26969646)
I would speculate that the Palo Alto (P.A. Semi) acquisition is what kicked off this round of the Apple semiconductor (r)evolution.
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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by zepto on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @03:50PM (#26960626)
The individual risks are small now, but they weren’t when Apple was recovering from near death.
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