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In ARMv8 you have a much cleaner mechanism through system registers(MSR/MRS).

" It's an open secret that ARM was (and still is) selling the CPU design at a discount if you integrated their Mali (GPU)." Why is that bad? Not only it's common business practice …

Graviton is Neoverse, ARM's Neoverse.

The AMX is an accelerator block... If you concluded otherwise, your reverse-engineering skills are not great... Let me repeat this: part of the ARM architectural license says that …

No. Precisely the Tegra SoC within the Nintendo Switch (X1) uses ARM Cores. Specifically A57 and A53. NVIDIA's project to develop their own v8.2 ARM-based chip is called Denver.

That's like saying that my Intel CPU comes with an NVIDA Turing AI acceleration extension. The instructions the CPU can run on an Apple ARM-based CPU is all ARM ISA. That's in the …

"and may just fork off on the ARMv8.3 spec, adding a few instructions here or there" No, they may not. People keep suggesting these kinds of things, but part of the license agreeme…

The main source of revenue for ARM is, by far, royalties. Licenses are paid once, royalties are paid by unit shipped. And they shipped billions last year. Revenue is not $300, we d…

As I said, I'm on my second FAANG. The "very rare individuals" you mention are hired L9 or above. That is, distinguished engineers+. You don't get to L9 with "a valuable technical …

And that's not the worst. The worst is that all of this was well known by pretty much everyone in the country. I've been hearing about these dealings, the King's affairs, and gener…

Competitors are also multi-billion corporations. I do work for one of those big multi-billion corporations, it's my second, and I've also worked for others not so big. Only newbie …

Do you think a multi-billion corporation would pay a low level employee an extra million just because they can? You may overestimate the value of individual engineers, big corporat…

Apple is a small, although significant, part of ARM's total market share. And that 25x is, as I said, without taking into account the premium. If you do, and there are good argumen…

ARM was publicly traded between 1998 and 2016. In that period its value multiplied about 25x, not counting the premium of the acquisition. Could you elaborate, please? Where do you…

The company is currently valued by analysts as high as $40 billion. Most seem to believe it's worth more than the $32bn Softbank paid in 2016.

Definitely in the short run, because of the understandable fear from NVIDIA's competitors to use their (now) technology. Maybe in the mid run if those fears begin to crystallize. U…

They can also design their own ISA. An ISA is a document, they can write their own. Now, can you think of reasons why they wouldn't want to do it that don't also apply to MIPS?

This can happen anywhere in the world. In order to remove a CEO, you have to follow the proper process. Allen Wu claims that the process wasn't followed and, therefore, his dismiss…

Socialist + "extreme centre" at best . And that's the executive. The legislature and the judicial are still packed and dominated by francoists, respectively. And don't get me start…

This is corporate mindset 101. Questions like "why don't you do X" make no sense to a corporation. The question is always "why should I do X". Every decision has a cost and a benef…

"Apple Silicon" is a literal truth. The silicon design, the microarchitecture, is theirs, not ARM's. The architecture, this includes the ISA but also many other things that have to…

I can give you a quick one: 5nm CPUs in Apple laptops.

1) ARM sells "ecosystem". They can license their IP because licensees know that, once they buy into it, they benefit from a unified ecosystem. Developing and, more than anything el…

ARM doesn't sell chips, they sell IP. E.g.: their ISA (instruction set) or soft cores (designs that you can integrate in your own chip and then fabricate). There's nothing special …

"ARM very recently started allowing licensees to add custom instructions, but only for Cortex-M (embedded)." They've reserved a block for that in the encoding space. Quite exciting…