Veteran chip designer Jim Keller, who worked on AMD's Zen processor core micro-architecture, has called AMD stupid for cancelling the sister project K12, which was being developed using Arm.
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In a recent interview, AMD has said that it is very confident in its own abilities and isn't intimidated by the arrival of Apple's M1. The ARM-based M1 has replaced Intel's x86 CPUs in the Macs.