Comment by LeFantome
3 hours ago
ARM is RISC and dominates x86 in most markets.
In 2026, RISC-V is not what I would call “low end”. Look up the P870-D, or Ascalon, it C950.
Do you think Apple spends more money than Intel on chip design?
3 hours ago
ARM is RISC and dominates x86 in most markets.
In 2026, RISC-V is not what I would call “low end”. Look up the P870-D, or Ascalon, it C950.
Do you think Apple spends more money than Intel on chip design?
> Do you think Apple spends more money than Intel on chip design?
Absolutely. Apple's R&D budget for 2025 was 34 Billion to Intel's ~18 Billion (and the majority of Intel's R&D budget goes to architecture, while for Apple, that is all TSMC R&D and Apple pays TSMC another ~$20 billion a year, of which, something like 8 billion is probably TSMC R&D that goes into apple's chips).
Sure not all of Apple's 34B is CPU R&D, but on a like-for-like basis, Apple probably has at least 50% more chip design budget (and they only make ~10-20 different chips a year compared to Intel who make ~100-200)