← Back to context Comment by Mikeb85 13 years ago The CPU. Apple licenses ARM's reference designs, then creates an SoC around that. 2 comments Mikeb85 Reply mendocino 13 years ago The 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 13 years ago ARM just comes up with the instruction set. The cores are still designed by Samsung, Qualcomm, NVidia, etc.
mendocino 13 years ago The 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 13 years ago ARM just comes up with the instruction set. The cores are still designed by Samsung, Qualcomm, NVidia, etc.
The 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.
ARM just comes up with the instruction set. The cores are still designed by Samsung, Qualcomm, NVidia, etc.