If Broadcom of all companies switched to the GIC, I wonder if there's any chance Apple would do the same in a later chip – in a less rushed dev cycle that's not just "quickly desktopify the iDevice SoC". (Also SMMU along with the GIC…)
Of course the unfortunate reality is that there is just no motivation for them to do this. Goddamn vertical integration! But.. maybe Boot Camp could motivate this? Though so far it seems they're just pushing virtualization instead.
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If Broadcom of all companies switched to the GIC, I wonder if there's any chance Apple would do the same in a later chip – in a less rushed dev cycle that's not just "quickly desktopify the iDevice SoC". (Also SMMU along with the GIC…)
Of course the unfortunate reality is that there is just no motivation for them to do this. Goddamn vertical integration! But.. maybe Boot Camp could motivate this? Though so far it seems they're just pushing virtualization instead.