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The GPU is a design from Imagination Technologies, the CPU is an Apple design. What part of the SoC is "mostly designed by ARM"?
by mendocino 13y ago
The GPU is a design from Imagination Technologies, the CPU is an Apple design. What part of the SoC is "mostly designed by ARM"?
- Mikeb85 13y agoThe CPU. Apple licenses ARM's reference designs, then creates an SoC around that.
- mendocino 13y agoThe 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.
- seabrookmx 13y agoARM just comes up with the instruction set. The cores are still designed by Samsung, Qualcomm, NVidia, etc.