Re:Ask HN: Is Apple now a chip company?
by ActorNightly on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @03:35PM
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Apple is not really ahead in chip design. They took mobile phone chips and upscaled them into laptop form.
And the reason they can do that is because they have a tight lock on everything else. Making a generic M1 compatible chip for widespread adoptions is hard. Making it fit into a specific piece of hardware and work with specific software is many orders of magnitude easier.
And the reason they can do that is because they have a tight lock on everything else. Making a generic M1 compatible chip for widespread adoptions is hard. Making it fit into a specific piece of hardware and work with specific software is many orders of magnitude easier.