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		greyhair on Nov 30, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why is Apple's M1 chip so fast? The team at P.A.Semi was the team that developed the DEC Alpha and the DEC StrongARM. After DEC folded, they went on to develop PowerPC based chips. Shortly after they completed their PowerPC design they were bought up by Apple. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.A._Semi

klelatti on Nov 30, 2020 [–]

Ironically StrongARM was sold to Intel who developed it as XScale before selling to Marvell.

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