I worked for $BigNameChipCo some 10-15 years ago. Back then there were 4 foundries: a, b, c, and Intel. Chip version A from foundry A was considered a completely separate beast from same chip from foundry B.
My company cross-licensed stuff from ARM, but the resulting chips came from foundry's A, B, or C. None of those foundries were named Samsung, ARM, nor Intel.
Having Samsung and ARM join up to make faster clock speeds just don't work. Neither Samsung nor ARM are in the business of cranking up cl
Due to a combination of ads, trackers, auto-loading, self-playing video, and massive gobs of Javascript, the modern web page has become a bloated monstrosity that requires exceptionally powerful hardware to render. Also, as computers become more ubiquitous, the number of programming jobs increases without changes to the overall number of skilled programers. As such, we need more powerful CPUs to deal with all the poorly optimized code for those ads, trackers, etc.
I think how it works is that Apple and Qualcomm treat an ARM core as a black box with just interface specifications. Kind of like how you'd by an IC, except that you don't solder it but rather draw it in a chip design. Qualcomm/Apple decide how to interface cores with the other stuff that's on a SoC (modems, GPU, memory bus, USB logic, power management). The SoC designer never* gets to see what's inside the ARM core; that knowledge is only shared with the fab company (e.g. TSMC, Samsung). In turn, the fab c
My company cross-licensed stuff from ARM, but the resulting chips came from foundry's A, B, or C. None of those foundries were named Samsung, ARM, nor Intel.
Having Samsung and ARM join up to make faster clock speeds just don't work. Neither Samsung nor ARM are in the business of cranking up cl
It seems Samsung has many fabs, but perhaps two of them do microprocessors. So it seems they are in the business of cranking up clock speeds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabrication_plants
More MHz Better!!!
Joke's on you; they're talking about GHz.