Apple's SoC developments occurred along side a clean sheet reinvention of OSX and a new 64-bit ISA designed for performance. They created something new and differentiated and ran with that: its silicon efforts were a tail wind during the 2010's.
Cellular is anything but a clean sheet...
The goal posts have been shifted here from how Apple presented the issue in your response. The non-FRAND patents are quite important for efficient implementations that don't burn a hole in your pocket and don't take a perceptibly long time to reconnect, hand off etc all w/o the device acting as...
I approach the subject without the assumption that Apple is right by default. (... and yes, Qualcomm also abuses its customers to the full extent possible so long as their lawyers can win in the end.)
Two things Apple perpetuated during its big spat with Qualcomm:
1) "Qualcomm double dips by...
And the board would fire the CEO of McDonald's for incompetence when he should have been focused on burgers, restaurant location and advertising. Cook has been enough of a rain-maker at Apple for their car and modem project to not matter for his tenure there.
Customers have no reason to think...
Arguably, more trade secrets flow Apple's way from such relationships than vice-versa. Hardly anyone who actually buys an iPhone thinks the cost of the network technologies and implementation provided by Qualcomm is "painful" next to hundreds in margins that Apple charges for things like an...
I don't think this has been concretely established yet. As good as Apple has been with other silicon disciplines, cellular subsystems are and will continue to be challenging for them.
Apple is taking on this complex, non-core competence project where it ultimately doesn't have superior efficiency or differentiation. Obsession with control might ultimately be a weight at its ankles as it gets organizationally saddled with engineering projects whose results at best don't make a...
I'm simply bringing some perspective to the loads of rather self-congratulatory press releases. The development is very behind schedule and the finished product only fit to release on a budget phone with loads of other compromises. This is simply not the clear win the self developed 64bit cores...
Apple added value w/ their custom CPUs and feature oriented SoC design / tight OS integration on top of which they created a massively profitable store. The C1 project by Srouji's own admission was Apple's most complicated silicon effort ever, being years late, inferior to existing designs and...
Would wait for more detailed reviews as it is as relatively difficult for review sites to test cellular subsystem performance compared to CPU/GPU performance as it is for companies implement (even a client-side accelerator for, never mind design) the 5G cellular networking standards. Nevermind...
It's likely the suit against Nuvia and Qualcomm was intentionally frivolous and an attempt to stall what ARM considers a likely competitor in its new business of implementing ARM designs as well...
A bit of a non-sequitur, but here's a good read:
https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2024/10/102809019-05-01-acc.pdf
Keller goes into his time at Apple and some of its advantages when it came to the economics and designs of its SoCs.
The first "Windows on ARM" which resembled iOS and Android lacked legacy software compatibility, arguably the biggest reason to use Windows. The current iteration is more sensible in at least emphasizing this with a new ABI designed around compatibility with emulation, a full toolchain in Visual...
So of the 3-tiered cores, we have Coyote Cove for P-Cores, Arctic Wolf for E-Cores, and there are also the LP-Cores... Are these rumored to also be Arctic wolf derived and sit separately on the SoC tile as with Lunar and Arrow Lake?
Likely Google's new Tensor for '25 or '26. Amon alluded to out-licensing the design at one point in an interview I can't find, and some Chinese rumors indicated that clocks were around 5 Ghz, far out of line for an ARM TLA design...
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