[olliej]

No more or less so than intel or amd. Or is the problem that the entire implementation is not public? Because even risc5 doesn't require that.

[mhh__]

That isn't true. AMD aren't great at it, but Intel publish thousands and thousands of pages of manuals. They don't have the secret sauce in them as per se but Apple literally will not publish jack shit about anything inside M1.

[userbinator]

"Intel x86 documentation has more pages than the 6502 has transistors": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13126248

There's also the "unpublished" stuff that occasionally leaks here and there; not something which I suspect will ever happen with Apple, but you never know...

[Daho0n]

Untrue. There're more documentation on Intel's CPU than Apple provide on an entire M1 laptop.

[olliej]

.. you mean the ARM specifications?