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amelius
on Nov 12, 2020
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Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms h...
Why do they call it Apple Silicon, when the core of the chip was designed by ARM and it was fabbed by TSMC?
Can't any other customer of ARM do the same thing, in principle?
ben-schaaf
on Nov 12, 2020
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Apple aren't using ARM's core designs, they're just licensing the architecture.
amelius
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Are you sure about that? I didn't see this mentioned anywhere in the news, or on the M1 Wikipedia page.
ben-schaaf
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Considering their A12 chip is designed by them I think it's safe to say the M1 is too. Not only that it states in the first sentence on Wikipedia that the M1 is designed by Apple.
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Can't any other customer of ARM do the same thing, in principle?