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Re:Google developing own CPUs for Chromebook laptops by my123 on Saturday October 02, 2021 @05:04PM (#28732067)
The extensions present in the M1 are not used at all by Apple’s public compilers. From the perspective of a 3rd-party macOS developer that doesn’t reverse engineer, it’s just a regular arm64 machine.

This allows Apple to deprecate/change those extensions over time without developer involvement, and even use Cortex reference designs where it would make sense for them.

Re:Google developing own CPUs for Chromebook laptops by Zenst on Saturday October 02, 2021 @05:36PM (#28732301)
Very true and easy to blur the lines of thought between SOC and CPU these days upon ARM. Thank you for the poignant reminder.