Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license

Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license by MBCook on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @09:41AM (#41924980)

I don’t think so. I’ve got a 2019 MBP and yeah, the heat issue is a big problem.

But they weren’t going to be left in the performance dust like the last times. Their chip supplier wasn’t going to stop selling chips to them.

They would have likely had to give up on how thin their laptops were, but they could have continued on just fine.

I do think the ARM transition wasn’t strictly good, it let them stay thin and quiet and cooler. They got economies of scale with their phone chips.

But it wasn’t necessary to the degree the previous ones were.

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Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license by MBCook on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @12:20PM (#41926560)

> I do think the ARM transition wasn’t strictly good

That’s a total typo I didn’t catch in time. I’m not sure what I tried to type, but I thought the transition was good. They didn’t have to but I’m glad they did.

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