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Apple doesn’t use ARM IP for either, and hasn’t for many years.

The most complete documentation is in the applegpu repo[1] by dougallj showing a great deal of recent activity (including by alyssarosenzweig). Last I checked, the documentation of barrier instructions wasn't complete enough to tell whether these device-scoped barriers are possible. (Note: on RDNA2, they're accomplished by DLC and GLC flags on memory accesses, combined with cache flush instructions such as S_GL1_INV).

There's also a lot of great material, accessibly written, on Alyssa's blog[2], see in particular the posts titled "Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, part ${I}".

[1]: https://github.com/dougallj/applegpu

[2]: https://rosenzweig.io/

No, they have a custom GPU design originally derived from Imagination Technologies PowerVR GPUs.

Hmm OK according to the doucmentation they designed the GPU themselves, so there's no public information on them.