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Apple has always been a badge engineering company - never an innovator. | 481 comments | Create New Account
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Apple has always been a badge engineering company - never an innovator.
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 28 2012 @ 05:44 PM EDT
Sorry guy. We are not living in the same world. You are in Peter Pan Land. It
time for you to start rowing towards reality.
America invents! Yup ways to steal from other.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

uh, not even close
Authored by: Hargoth on Tuesday, August 28 2012 @ 06:50 PM EDT
You might want to read up on Apple's chip design.

Here is some help:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Ax

Apple A5X: "dual ARM Cortex-A9 cores" "PowerVR SGX543MP4"

And Arm design (Arm not Apple) is up to version 15, used in many new phones.

PowerVR is designed by Imagination Technologies, Not Apple.

It is a VERY different thing to suggest chip feature implementations (which
Apple did) to actual chip design (which Apple did not).

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

LLVM and GCC
Authored by: tiger99 on Wednesday, August 29 2012 @ 08:18 AM EDT
Well, you can see the attraction to parasitical companies, as LLVM is BSD-style licensed. Big mistake. Why work, unpaid, for the likes of Apple and M$?

As of now, LLVM still seems to need the GCC front end.

According to Wikipedia: "in the cases where raw performance is benchmarked, LLVM 2.9 trails GCC 4.6.1 in code quality (speed of the compiled programs) by about 10% on average, while compiling 20-30% faster". Clearly not ready for serious use yet.

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