The way I heard it PA Semi was the singular driving force that led to Apple Silicon, but I'm not any kind of insider that's just the chatter I heard.
replyWhoever it was, whooo, that's hot shit. I remember an M1 MacBook Air just cleaning the clock of an Intel MacBook Pro and thinking "x86_64 has real competition again".
Great silicon. I'm over it with not having root on my own machine, so I've left the ecosystem, but it's really nice hardware, can't dispute that.
it would be interesting to know apple's true/inside attitude towards people putting linux on their hardware. they don't seem very interested in helping, but donno whether they actively sabotage either.
reply> The way I heard it PA Semi was the singular driving force that led to Apple Silicon
replyAnd a lot of them are sitting under Qualcomm via the Nuvia acquisition.
PA Semi group did the logic designs. I think they're talking about physical design though.
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