Why doesn't the Asahi team just design their own silicon? With AI it is easier than ever. And no this is not a joke.

How to get it fabbed? That's even easier as there are lots of companies with $$$ who'd like to commoditize Apple.

Danox a day ago | parent | next [-]

Three ex-Apple engineers did it by taking out a license with Arm Holdings/Softbank to form their own company and were successful enough to be bought out by Qualcomm 1.2 billion dollars, isn’t the Linux community big enough to support a processor from scratch, taking the same path? Taking that same path seems like a no-brainer if you have the skills.

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simonh 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How would designing a new chip commoditize Apple?

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alpaca128 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why doesn't Apple just contribute to Asahi?

	▲	Danox a day ago \| parent [-]
		Isn’t Darwin open sourced? 26 years ago, no one’s picked up the gauntlet, what more help do you need?

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rekoil 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

That would be missing the point entirely though?

Asahi Linux is a project to provide an option to people who have for one reason or another got themselves an Apple Silicon Mac.

Building their own silicon would serve an entirely different goal.

	▲	Danox a day ago \| parent [-]
		Yet building their own silicon/with your in-house Linux distro would be the quickest and easiest way. Solving the need…