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Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license by billti on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @02:11AM (#41922299)
> Apple did not help them design the CPU/Architecture

I believe they had a big hand in ARM64. Though best reference I can find right now is this very site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31368489

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Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license by happymellon on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @02:34AM (#41922410)
Oh, I was just wanting to clarify the "Apple co-founded".

They had the Newton project, found ARM did a better job than the other options, but there were a few missing pieces. They funded the spun out project so they could throw ARM a few new requirements for the CPU design.

As a "cofounder" of ARM, they didn't contribute technical experience and the architecture did already exist.

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Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license by steeeeeve on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @02:05PM (#41927693)
Sigh. Newton. So far ahead of it's time.
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