[ganbatekudasai]

The CPUs are designed and made by Apple, the ISA is licensed from ARM. Those are not like ARM Cortex CPUs that are actually designed by ARM.

[kllrnohj]

Where do you see these are Apple designed CPUs? There doesn't seem to be anything indicating that, and that would be massive news.

[ganbatekudasai]

Err sorry, I thought we were talking about the Apple M1 as in another comment subthread here, but that wasn't this one actually.

But my point still stands I think, isn't this CPU designed by Nvidia, also just with an ARM-licensed ISA? Similarly AMD you mentioned in your list shares its ISA with Intel, and yet the CPUs are completely different.

[Veedrac]

The CPU is custom but the cores are off-the-shelf Arm cores.

[ganbatekudasai]

Alright, then my point is indeed gone. I misread the author, thinking I was still in another subthread.