Re:A Big Week for RISC-V
by ksec on Monday February 14, 2022 @05:50AM
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>The real question is why Apple uses ARM.
The industry ( Smartphone ) uses ARM and that benefited Apple enormously. All the open source software that apple deploy and uses inside iOS as well as LLVM compiler tool chain. Apple benefited these R&D in value are being spent from Android as well. Instead of Apple being the sold owner and maintainer of its own ISA.
At the end of the day ISA doesn't really matter from Apple's POV. It make less sense now when Apple now has an array of their own ARM implementation to choose from. Since they dont need to pay per unit it makes very little sense to switch.
The industry ( Smartphone ) uses ARM and that benefited Apple enormously. All the open source software that apple deploy and uses inside iOS as well as LLVM compiler tool chain. Apple benefited these R&D in value are being spent from Android as well. Instead of Apple being the sold owner and maintainer of its own ISA.
At the end of the day ISA doesn't really matter from Apple's POV. It make less sense now when Apple now has an array of their own ARM implementation to choose from. Since they dont need to pay per unit it makes very little sense to switch.
Unless you are into very specific usage.