Comment by gdilla
13 years ago
Correction. Apple's A7 is fabricated by Samsung. It is wholly designed by Apple. They're just using Samsung's foundry.
13 years ago
Correction. Apple's A7 is fabricated by Samsung. It is wholly designed by Apple. They're just using Samsung's foundry.
It's actually mostly designed by ARM holdings. Apple simply designs the SoC layout and chooses the components.
The GPU is a design from Imagination Technologies, the CPU is an Apple design. What part of the SoC is "mostly designed by ARM"?
The CPU. Apple licenses ARM's reference designs, then creates an SoC around that.
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