> And yes, compatibility will be kept with other Arm based CPUs including Apple Silicon.
Did you forget the three E's?
"Embrace, extend, extinguish"? Surely you're not that young?
Did you forget the three E's?
"Embrace, extend, extinguish"? Surely you're not that young?
As others have said the licensing terms of the Arm ISA prevent this very thing happening and in any event there is no way that even MS could do this given the size of the whole Arm ecosystem.
[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/08/arm-brings-custom-instruct...
But things will become really interesting at the point ARM would be eaten by Nvidia. I've prepared a big pile of popcorn just in case.
Agreed on the popcorn though!!