Apple's former CPU designers are headed to Qualcomm as their startup gets acquired

13 January 2021
They worked on Apple's chips all the way to the current A14. Now, they have CPU designs that will go in Qualcomm's flagship chipsets.

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  • 14 Jan 2021

Anonymous, 14 Jan 2021Intel's problem is they're still producing chips ... morethey could trounce AMD in performance/efficiency all over again.

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    • 14 Jan 2021

    zodiacfml, 14 Jan 2021looks like after the industry got a taste of the Apple M1, ... moreIntel's problem is they're still producing chips using their fabs, which is stuck on 10nm node. Best decision AMD made was getting rid of their own fabs, Global Foundries (which is stuck on 14-16nm), and using TSMC to produce their chips. If Intel produced their chips on 5nm node,

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      • 14 Jan 2021

      From all reports, the Nuvua guys were working on server chips. I'm sure how that's going to translate to mobile phone socs. If the cores themselves were designed for server loads, I'm not sure how they'll perform running mobile apps. But given that the CEO designed Apple 's A series cores, he should know what to do.

        looks like after the industry got a taste of the Apple M1, they got awoken from their complacency, that is Qualcomm and Intel. Intel announced a new CEO with engineering background and long time Intel employee.

          Wily2021, 13 Jan 2021There’s no such a thing, just a new tech which need time to... morethats all joke they have ... thats why they keep repeating same thing ...

            The irony... Samsung is looking to drop Qualcomm Snapdragon for and GPU

            Qualcomm out here getting better cpu with nuvia

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              • 14 Jan 2021

              Andreidinutu, 13 Jan 2021So basically the greatest all in one company? Sounds great.... moreDidn't have to; wasn't meant to :-)

                Anonymous, 13 Jan 2021They wanted no part of being associated with the thermal th... moreha! probably true.

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                  • 13 Jan 2021

                  MrPong, 13 Jan 2021Have you seen the Snapdragon 888 thermal throttle badly as ... moreSo????

                    Anonymous, 13 Jan 2021They wanted no part of being associated with the thermal th... moreThere’s no such a thing, just a new tech which need time to get optimized. Snapdragon 888 is in exactly same situation now, well it’s even lot worse like you can see from this genshin impact video https://youtu.be/GmEx4rdTFsU so bad performance. I wonder what will happen with upcoming Android phones :D it’s going to be so much fun, it’s like removing charger thing again. Droidboys goes crazy for this thermal throttling and now/soon they are in exact same situation :D will you guys never learn?

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                      • 13 Jan 2021

                      Anonymous, 13 Jan 2021They wanted no part of being associated with the thermal th... moreHave you seen the Snapdragon 888 thermal throttle badly as well?

                      And check out Gary Explains and the A14 did not even have a throttling issue, with the performance only reduced very slightly under sustained load.

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                        • 13 Jan 2021

                        They wanted no part of being associated with the thermal throttling disaster of the year.

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                          • 13 Jan 2021

                          What we need is competition for the M1...hope Qualcomm can cook up something faster than just Cortex derivatives.

                          We need the transition to ARM on Windows but it won't happen with crappy Snapdragon processors.

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                            • 13 Jan 2021

                            Sure I know what that is, I add it to my coffee every morning.

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                              • 13 Jan 2021

                              That logo is hideous

                                Qualcomm will certainly benefit from this acquisition but will it be able to beat Apple is doubtful. However, if they do then it will be quite interesting to see how Apple responds.

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                                  • 13 Jan 2021

                                  The legendary bionic processors are all made by tsmc.seems interesting move.
                                  Besides Qualcomm is almost taking over apple for the very first time ever.
                                  My take is they are not the only competitor in android ecosystem anymore.
                                  Kirin 9000 rocks benchmarks thus next year exynos will be powered by rdna gpu.
                                  Who knows may be they are not willing to be the next “ intel “ which torn apart by Amd then destroyed my Apple M1.Guess that’s scary enough for Qualcomm.

                                    Nivea

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                                      • 13 Jan 2021

                                      is the logo navy blue, or purple?

                                        So basically the greatest all in one company? Sounds great. Hope it will last. The traveling wilburys (some of the best musicians) didnt last all that long

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