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Re:Apple Debuts iPhone 16e by throwaway63467 on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @06:16PM (#43109015)
Their CPU is based on ARM IP, it’s not like they designed it from the ground up. The modem they might have had to? Also I guess a big challenge are all the patents you need to be aware of and find ways to license or circumvent, not sure if that’s worse for modems but it seems all wireless / cellular technology is riddled with patents (not saying CPUs aren’t but again ARM is probably taking care of some of that for Apple).
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Re:Apple Debuts iPhone 16e by stephen_g on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @08:01PM (#43109862)
No, that's not how it works. The processor cores haven't been based on ARM IP since the A6, since that chip it's been a fully custom core that is just compatible with the ARM instruction set.
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Re:Apple Debuts iPhone 16e by amendegree on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @06:42PM (#43109278)
They bought intel’s entire modem unit, so it’s not a ground up design, but maybe that makes it worse… who knows what was causing intel to not be competitive in that space…
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Re:Apple Debuts iPhone 16e by astrange on Thursday February 20, 2025 @12:34AM (#43111462)
> Their CPU is based on ARM IP, it’s not like they designed it from the ground up.

It's the opposite, AArch64 was designed by ARM in order to produce their CPUs.

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