Arm unveils 7nm Cortex-A76 CPU
I&#x27;m not a hardware knowledgable guy, but would love to read&#x2F;hear an intro about what chip design is all about (at a lay person&#x27;s level I guess).<p>I understand that ARM sells core designs, and that each company assembles them &#x2F; designs them in the way suits their performance needs, and then gets them manufactured?<p>But what does that really mean?  What is the &quot;user&quot; doing?  Are they arranging them like kids&#x27; Lego blocks on a die surface?  Dragging and dropping blocks of code?  Are they tweaking the voltage settings?   Are they combining them in ways that do sequential operations special to them?   What&#x27;s the added step here?   Like, why doesn&#x27;t ARM just create the chips that the end OEMs want?<p>Is it like cooking or chemistry?  What&#x27;s the closest analogy?  I would love to get a more intuitive feel about what chip design is all about.<p>Thanks!