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mendocino
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Apple's A7 is Made By Samsung
The GPU is a design from Imagination Technologies, the CPU is an Apple design. What part of the SoC is "mostly designed by ARM"?
Mikeb85
on Sept 21, 2013
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The CPU. Apple licenses ARM's reference designs, then creates an SoC around that.
mendocino
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The last SoC where this has been the case is the A5 (using the the ARM Cortex-A9 MP). The Apple A6 and A7 don't use ARM cores and neither does Qualcomm in their Snapdragon SoCs.
seabrookmx
on Sept 21, 2013
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ARM just comes up with the instruction set. The cores are still designed by Samsung, Qualcomm, NVidia, etc.
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