Comment by SahAssar

2 days ago

Peripheral chips, non-standard bootloaders, custom hypervisors and similar is not what people mean when they say "run on a custom silicon".

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Even Steam Deck has a custom APU made specifically for it. Call it "customized" if you don't like "custom".

  • The steam decks APU was designed for Magic Leap 2. It is one of the worst examples you could choose for a chip specifically designed for the thing it is in.

No, they mean customized SoCs which what those chips are as well

  • So "run on a custom silicon" should not mean anything "custom" in regards to architecture or ISA or even microarchitecture?

    If that is true then a lot (or most) of android phones run on "custom silicon" and the term is meaningless.