New reporting here is that half the cores are custom, though I’m not sure what that means exactly, and do they have an ARM architecture license? Curious for takes here on this chip and SMIC 7nm
Indeed. Didn’t want to influence answers, but there is something fishy with all this. Remember that Allen Wu is still out there selling a competing ISA, likely with stolen IP.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 169 ms ] threadNew reporting here is that half the cores are custom, though I’m not sure what that means exactly, and do they have an ARM architecture license? Curious for takes here on this chip and SMIC 7nm
I wonder if this would have any ties to the Arm China saga [0]
[0] https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Caixin/In-Depth-How-SoftBa...