[otabdeveloper4]

> And yes, compatibility will be kept with other Arm based CPUs including Apple Silicon.

Did you forget the three E's?

"Embrace, extend, extinguish"? Surely you're not that young?

[klelatti]

I'm old enough to remember going to one of the very first presentations of the Arm architecture in 1985.

As others have said the licensing terms of the Arm ISA prevent this very thing happening and in any event there is no way that even MS could do this given the size of the whole Arm ecosystem.

[sweden]

That's not how licensing Arm technology works.

[esclerofilo]

Now it is how it works for embedded processors[1], I see no reason why that can't "tricle up" to the more powerful ones.

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/08/arm-brings-custom-instruct...

[klelatti]

Do you think Arm will allow MS to EEE their own ISA?

[still_grokking]

They allowed Apple to do it, so...

But things will become really interesting at the point ARM would be eaten by Nvidia. I've prepared a big pile of popcorn just in case.

[klelatti]

You've answered a question I didn't ask!

Agreed on the popcorn though!!