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M1 Apple Silicon. And overall Apple set a very high bar for performance and power efficiency that is not easily matched and has greatly impacted the development and deployment schedules of other ARMv8 SoCs. Showcasing the full scope of the ARM architecture license and how many different designs can execute the same instruction set, none of these ARMv8 CPUs are all that much alike.

And finally we have Denver, perhaps the most interesting and certainly least conventional design, forgoing the established norms of Out of Order Execution OoOE in favor of a very wide in-order design backed by an ambitious binary translation and optimization scheme.

In the ARM SoC space, much has been made of core counts, both as a marketing vehicle and of value to overall performance. Much like the PC space a decade prior, when multi-core processors became viable they were of an almost immediate benefit. However also like the PC space, the benefits of additional cores began to taper off with each additional core. The end result has been that it has been difficult for mobile devices to consistently saturate an SoC with more than a couple of cores.

Meanwhile the Cortex family of designs coming from ARM have generally allowed high core counts. Quad core A15 designs quickly came along, setting the stage for the high core count situations we previously discussed. Believing that fewer, faster cores will deliver better real-world performance and better power consumption, NVIDIA set out to build a bigger, wider CPU that would do just that.

Deliver something similar in performance to Cyclone in the Android market and prove the performance and power benefits of 2 larger cores over 4 weaker cores, and NVIDIA would be well set in the high-end SoC marketplace. The catch of course is that NVIDIA needs to sell enough SoCs in the long run to pay for the substantial costs of developing a CPU, which means that along with the usual technical risks, there are some financial risks as well for developing your own CPU.

The SoC market has continued to shed players over the years, with players such as Texas Instruments and ST-Ericsson getting squeezed out of the market. With so many vendors using the same Cortex CPU designs, from a performance perspective their SoCs are similarly replaceable, making the risk of being the next TI all the greater. Developing your own CPU is not without risks as well — especially if it ends up underperforming the competition — but played right it means being able to offer a product with a unique feature that helps the SoC stand out from the crowd.