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Re:Apple's A7 is Made By Samsung by Mikeb85 on Friday September 20, 2013 @09:07PM (#6421485)
The CPU. Apple licenses ARM's reference designs, then creates an SoC around that.
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Re:Apple's A7 is Made By Samsung by mendocino on Friday September 20, 2013 @09:37PM (#6421588)
The last SoC where this has been the case is the A5 (using the the ARM Cortex-A9 MP). The Apple A6 and A7 don't use ARM cores and neither does Qualcomm in their Snapdragon SoCs.
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Re:Apple's A7 is Made By Samsung by seabrookmx on Friday September 20, 2013 @10:40PM (#6421764)
ARM just comes up with the instruction set. The cores are still designed by Samsung, Qualcomm, NVidia, etc.
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