Asus-ROG-Aml-Deep-Dive

This is related to a technical deep dive released a few weeks ago: https://github.com/Zephkek/Asus-ROG-Aml-Deep-Dive?tab=readme... HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45271484

I think as jeffbee said below it's not even the custom ARM cores, but rather Apple's ability to control not only the hardware but the software on-top of it. In a typical Windows machine you are dealing with your CPU and microcode made by AMD/Intel/Other, then the BIOS/Driver code written by your motherboard manufacturer, and your GPU from either the on-board, or dGPU from Intel/Nvidia/AMD and then Windows made by Microsoft. All of this leads to silly things like the ASUS ACPI driver bug [1] or Dell [2]. Apple does not suffer from this lack of control and communication, instead allowing tight integration. [1]: https://github.com/Zephkek/Asus-ROG-Aml-Deep-Dive [2]: https://triangulatedexistence.mataroa.blog/blog/i-uncovered-...

See recently: https://github.com/Zephkek/Asus-ROG-Aml-Deep-Dive I get the impression that, in hardware companies, software is often not taken very seriously, when it can cripple the user experience for trivial bugs. It's also annoying that it's "proprietary" rather than open source, when hundreds of models will be using the same chipset in the same way. It's not a competitive advantage, the sleep code, it can only be a disadvantage if it's done badly.