Subj : Re: Hackintosh
To   : Spectre
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Apr 21 2022 09:23:12

  Re: Re: Hackintosh
  By: Spectre to Nightfox on Thu Apr 21 2022 07:08 am

 Sp> They could but to this point they don't appear to be reinventing the
 Sp> wheel, just optimising it. I believe, and once again I can't quote this,
 Sp> it was all over the place for a while... Apple merely optimised the
 Sp> support chips and layout adding cache and memory to the die. Decreasing
 Sp> the fab from 16nm to 5nm process.

 Sp> So better efficiency, lower power consumption. Otherwise basically the
 Sp> same bits and pieces as any other ARM processor with support chips.

From my understanding, that's basically how the ARM model works.  Companies license the ARM processor designs, then they can either just make the ARM processor as is or add onto it according to their needs.  Apple seems to have done that with their M1 processor.

Nightfox
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