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Why would you have to license a processor? Just get an off- the-shelf board with each processor.
by pkaye 11y ago
Why would you have to license a processor? Just get an off- the-shelf board with each processor.
- nickpsecurity 11y agoYou have to license it to make the SOC. They only get those cheap in huge volumes. So, what people are actually saying is a huge-volume, low-margin ARM has better price-per-unit than a low-volume, premium-market alternative. No kidding lol. Even similar markets, the low licensing are why MIPS and PPC chips continue to sell at low prices even with lower volume. And SPARC has no such licensing if you do the core yourself given it's a mostly-open ISA. So, the comparison is apples to oranges in many ways. It would have to be on same process node, same clock, feature power management, high volume, and embedded board. Who knows what that comparison would be. This one is meaningless because, outside Leon's, SPARC development focuses on servers with high performance for threaded and mainframe loads with inflated prices. Case in point: https://blogs.oracle.com/rajadurai/entry/sparc_m7_chip_32_cores https://blogs.oracle.com/rajadurai/entry/sparc_m7_chip_32_co... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/29/fujitsu_sparc64_x_plus_processor/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/29/fujitsu_sparc64_x_pl...