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Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro

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1080 points antipaul | 4 comments | 12 Nov 20 00:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.821s | source
1. amelius ◴[12 Nov 20 10:08 UTC] No.25068309[source]▶
Why do they call it Apple Silicon, when the core of the chip was designed by ARM and it was fabbed by TSMC?

Can't any other customer of ARM do the same thing, in principle?

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2. ben-schaaf ◴[12 Nov 20 10:17 UTC] No.25068360[source]▶
Apple aren't using ARM's core designs, they're just licensing the architecture.
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3. amelius ◴[12 Nov 20 12:12 UTC] No.25068967[source]▶
Are you sure about that? I didn't see this mentioned anywhere in the news, or on the M1 Wikipedia page.
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4. ben-schaaf ◴[13 Nov 20 04:15 UTC] No.25078803{3}[source]▶
Considering their A12 chip is designed by them I think it's safe to say the M1 is too. Not only that it states in the first sentence on Wikipedia that the M1 is designed by Apple.