By: anon (anonb.delete@this.d.e), March 7, 2015 10:41 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Wilco (Wilco.Dijkstra.delete@this.ntlworld.com) on March 6, 2015 2:31 pm wrote:
> Did Athlon64 cost billions? All it took was a brilliant design
> and a great team to make it happen. The trend is obvious, each new generation of ARM cores improves
> by 30-50%. I wonder what would happen if say the Athlon64 designer does an ARM...
Interesting aside, many of the original Hammer design team are currently employed by the Apple ARM core design team. They are for a large part responsible for the A(n) designs that go in Apple phones and tablets.
Very soon after becoming CEO, Hector Ruiz managed to alienate the K8 design team and most of them quit the company. Many of them ended up joining PA Semi, a company founded by a DEC alumnus who a lot of the K8 team had previously worked with. PA Semi originally intended to make better-than-IBM Power chips for Apple desktops and laptops, and they both did some pretty fine CPU design and cultivated a good relationship with Apple. Apple, however, chose to use Intel CPUs instead, which made PA semi pretty aimless. Later, Apple bought the company for scraps, and had it design ARM chips for mobile devices instead.
> Did Athlon64 cost billions? All it took was a brilliant design
> and a great team to make it happen. The trend is obvious, each new generation of ARM cores improves
> by 30-50%. I wonder what would happen if say the Athlon64 designer does an ARM...
Interesting aside, many of the original Hammer design team are currently employed by the Apple ARM core design team. They are for a large part responsible for the A(n) designs that go in Apple phones and tablets.
Very soon after becoming CEO, Hector Ruiz managed to alienate the K8 design team and most of them quit the company. Many of them ended up joining PA Semi, a company founded by a DEC alumnus who a lot of the K8 team had previously worked with. PA Semi originally intended to make better-than-IBM Power chips for Apple desktops and laptops, and they both did some pretty fine CPU design and cultivated a good relationship with Apple. Apple, however, chose to use Intel CPUs instead, which made PA semi pretty aimless. Later, Apple bought the company for scraps, and had it design ARM chips for mobile devices instead.
