It's still the licensed ARMv7-A architecture. But you're right the cores themselves are not licensed. I agree - I was wrong about the iPhone 8 GPU being Apple's first designed core.A6 is the first A series with Apple's own CPU.
It's still the licensed ARMv7-A architecture. But you're right the cores themselves are not licensed. I agree - I was wrong about the iPhone 8 GPU being Apple's first designed core.A6 is the first A series with Apple's own CPU.
A4/5 are ARM core licensed, all other A series CPU are ARM architecture licensed. Unless one day Apple want to invent their own ISA or switch to MIPS/RISC-v, this won't change.It's still the licensed ARMv7-A architecture. But you're right the cores themselves are not licensed. I agree - I was wrong about the iPhone 8 GPU being Apple's first designed core.
I've never had a problem with them in my iPhone 7, X & Xs.
Do you really think Apple will nail modems on their first attempt? Apple does everything on the cheap so don't expect their in-house modems to be revolutionary.
He went from being in the running for Intel CEO to working to make Apple less reliant on Intel.
Yeah, the A series chips designed by Apple aren’t the best chips in the industry or anything..,
They seemed to have nailed their iPhone on first attempt; their in-house A processors on first attempt; their watch on first attempt; their....
As far as Apple doing everything on the cheap - you obviously have never looked at their R&D spending.
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What a load of nonsense.
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AFAIK the "huge majority of modem technology" you're talking about is for 4G and below. Qualcomm's hold is much weaker on the 5G side. Maybe Apple can include its own 5G on-chip with the Ax processor and use Intel for for the older stuff. When 5G is ubiquitous, that chip could be chucked.
That's a good one.Apple does not make the best chips by a long shot. Kettle brand is far and away better.
"Fully designed" by Apple? No. Apple put together two ARM Cortex-A9 CPU cores and one Imagination Technologies PowerVR SGX543MP2 GPU core, and then Samsung fabbed and packaged it. Not trying to imply what Apple did was easy - it is still an amazing feat on a first attempt. But to say they "fully designed" that is laughable.
As I said above, the first time Apple "fully designed" a complex IC was the iPhone 8 where Apple designed the GPU cores.
I question that, Apple used to be known for great quality, recently it’s been the opposite.
How is bringing costly design in-house financially practical when sales are down 15% on top of low market share? In this situation out sourcing makes more sense. Or, is this smoke and mirrors to save face when they return to using Qualcomm but with an agreement where they can claim it's designed in-house, like with ARM SoC and multi-touch display, because the average Joe's swallow that up and it'll help boost share price? Worst case they go Mediatek which is even lower cost than Intel but probably performs slightly better. Still no match for Qualcomm though.
Do you have a data sheet for the A series?Yeah, the A series chips designed by Apple aren’t the best chips in the industry or anything..,
What percentage does Apple hold?Qualcomm holds a lot of patents but not a huge majority.
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The sooner Apple gets Intel Modems out of the iPhone, the better experience we iPhone Customers will have.
If they are just starting, they are a minimum of two years away.
To put it into perspective, Broadcom attempted for nearly two decades and gave up. Tried to acquire Qualcomm and failed. Even with the capable Israelis it's probably closer to half a decade at best.
Apple has assembled an in-house modem engineering team led by its chipmaking chief Johny Srouji, according to Reuters./QUOTE]
"Johny"... "Jony"... Does Apple have to pay royalties on use of the letter "N"?