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All ARM advancements since ARMv8 come FROM apple. How do you think it happens that anytime ARMv8.X is announced, apple announces "and our phones from 2 years ago and on support ARMv8.X"?

Sources:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31368681

https://web.archive.org/web/20210106015533/https://twitter.c...

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Evidently this does not apply to ARMv9/SVE, which Apple so far eschews.

> All ARM advancements since ARMv8 come FROM apple.

This made me thinking Apple designed ARMv8 and gave it back to ARM. But from your source:

> Apple contracted ARM to design a new ISA for its purposes.

"We want you to design a new ISA, and btw, it would be extra cool if it happened to look just like this."

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