Comment by melange
13 years ago
The A7 seems pretty exciting to people who pay attention to these things: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7335/the-iphone-5s-review
13 years ago
The A7 seems pretty exciting to people who pay attention to these things: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7335/the-iphone-5s-review
It uses ARM v8 and Samsung's 28nm process and Imagination's series 6 GPU, which is all very exciting for chip nerds, but not for Samsung, who provides one, is a leading licencee of another and could buy the third if it wants to, so what's left to steal?
"so what's left to steal?"
The CPU? ARMv8 isn't a thing, it's an instruction set specification, just like x86, implemented by various micro-architectures. Samsung doesn't do that (yet).
ARMv8 in this case is just an instruction set spec.
Apple's implementation is very much something to steal, given that it outperforms everyone else's.