I hope not, Qualcomm's strategy is to stagnate with inefficient chips
I was hoping Apple would buy them or AMD
With Qualcomm, ARM will die
I was hoping Apple would buy them or AMD
With Qualcomm, ARM will die
God I hope not. Apple would try to prevent everyone else in the industry from using ARM IP and would lead to either a schism in ARM architectures or everyone jumping on something else (maybe that's what would get RISC-V to take off?).
Export controls to China alone will do it.
I'd hope they contribute for a better ARM ecosystem for everyone using their experience crafting M1
What do you mean? Seems like they're constantly trying to catch up with Apple's chips.
and since Apple M1 came out 2 years ago, they are still unable to offer equivalent
The fact that they can't keep up with their big competitor doesn't seem like evidence that they deliberately want things to stagnate.
IIRC Apple is an architectural licensee but Qualcomm is not (though they were ~6 years ago). Back in the day, Qualcomm's designs were probably more competitive than the reference ones are today.
Disclosure: I'm a Qualcomm employee.
To be fair, only Apple could pay more cost for chip.