{"id":171292,"date":"2023-09-04T18:23:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T23:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-first-apple-silicon-the-aquarius-processor-project"},"modified":"2023-09-04T18:23:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T23:23:13","slug":"the-first-apple-silicon-the-aquarius-processor-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-first-apple-silicon-the-aquarius-processor-project","title":{"rendered":"The First \u2018Apple Silicon\u2019 : The Aquarius Processor Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-first-apple-silicon-the-aquarius-processor-project2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple\u2019s own System on Chips (SoC) designs used in iPhones, iPads and now Macs (with \u2018Apple Silicon\u2019 branding) are a key source of competitive advantage for the Cupertino giant. The Arm instruction set compatible, but Apple designed, processors used in these SoCs, consistently outperform competitors\u2019 designs.<\/p>\n<p>Apple is the modern exemplar of the maxim from Herman Hauser, founder of Acorn, Apple\u2019s partner in the original Arm joint venture, that \u2018there will be two types of computer company in the future, those with silicon design capability and those that are dead \u2019.<\/p>\n<p>But Apple\u2019s first attempt to design its own processor came over twenty years before the appearance of the first iPhone. We\u2019ve seen in the <a href=\"https:\/\/thechipletter.substack.com\/p\/the-risc-wars-part-1-the-cambrian-c55\" rel> RISC Wars Part 1: the Cambrian Explosion<\/a> how, as the 1980s progressed, almost every semiconductor manufacturer and computer maker felt the need to have their own processor design. Apple was no exception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple\u2019s own System on Chips (SoC) designs used in iPhones, iPads and now Macs (with \u2018Apple Silicon\u2019 branding) are a key source of competitive advantage for the Cupertino giant. The Arm instruction set compatible, but Apple designed, processors used in these SoCs, consistently outperform competitors\u2019 designs. Apple is the modern exemplar of the maxim from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}