翻看历史，苹果的造芯之路并非一帆风顺，有大大小小的波折，也有力挽狂澜的正确举措。本文就来看看苹果公司首次尝试设计自己的处理器的故事和经历。 随着20世纪80年代的进展，几乎每个半导体制造商和计算机制造商都感到需要拥有自己的处理器设计。 那是1982年 ...

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Bao Yungang, vice director of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Computing Technology and chief scientist at the Beijing Open Source Chip Academy, predicts RISC-V will become the world's ...

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