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by bitwize 2032 days ago
The only ARM IP Apple actually used was the ISA. The architecture in the M1 -- and all the A chips -- is 100% custom.

No other gadget maker has the internal engineering chops to do what Apple has done. And it'll be a few years before ARM releases a chip architecture that comes within spitting distance of the M1's performance -- by which time Apple will have released an even more powerful chip.