Someone says they know someone at Apple and they are working on "designing future chips"
You: Apple doesn't design anything, it's all off the shelf.
Me: I'm pretty sure he means Apple's modifications to the base stuff.
You: No, there's nothing in wikipedia that indicates Apple modified anything.
Me: here's two wikipedia links and other citations showing the changes Apple makes and how that might be expected for some ARM licensees.
You: They maybe didn't change one part I want to talk about, I win.
For the record I think you are correct that it hasn't been shown that Apple has made radical changes to the A9 CPU. It also hasn't been shown to my knowledge that they haven't made changes. There certainly are benchmarks where Apple's chip does better then other A9's but there's no evidence this is hardware based.
Most importantly, I don't care if they changes they're making are to other parts of the SoC or to the core A9 CPU design. Changes to the SoC perfectly qualify under what you originally replied to "future generations of chips" before the gratuitous display of nitpicking and goalpost moving.
Recap of this subthread:
Someone says they know someone at Apple and they are working on "designing future chips"
You: Apple doesn't design anything, it's all off the shelf.
Me: I'm pretty sure he means Apple's modifications to the base stuff.
You: No, there's nothing in wikipedia that indicates Apple modified anything.
Me: here's two wikipedia links and other citations showing the changes Apple makes and how that might be expected for some ARM licensees.
You: They maybe didn't change one part I want to talk about, I win.
For the record I think you are correct that it hasn't been shown that Apple has made radical changes to the A9 CPU. It also hasn't been shown to my knowledge that they haven't made changes. There certainly are benchmarks where Apple's chip does better then other A9's but there's no evidence this is hardware based.
Most importantly, I don't care if they changes they're making are to other parts of the SoC or to the core A9 CPU design. Changes to the SoC perfectly qualify under what you originally replied to "future generations of chips" before the gratuitous display of nitpicking and goalpost moving.