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Surprised to see Apple can create the M cpu series and that it has a hard time with this. What makes it particularly difficult?

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Given how much of the motivation behind this is licencing issues with Qualcomm, I imagine one big challenge is designing around not infringing on Qualcomm's patents.

This is correct. Apparently there are two key patents getting in the way.

https://www.patentlyapple.com/2022/06/apple-not-releasing-th...

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