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It is not generosity. It is knowledge of your own business model. ARM wants to earn 1penny on every chip sold, but to put chips everywhere. So increasing royal
by venomsnake 10y ago
It is not generosity. It is knowledge of your own business model.
ARM wants to earn 1penny on every chip sold, but to put chips everywhere. So increasing royalties, but preventing market expansion is bad. Especially with the internet of appliances rapidly approaching.
- ma2rten 10y agoNot just that, it also prevents other companies from entering this market. Maybe forward thinking is a better term that generous.
- dingo_bat 10y agoI'm curious. Does ARM get royalties even on custom designed chips like apple's? Or only on reference cores?
- masklinn 10y ago> Does ARM get royalties even on custom designed chips like apple's? Designing custom cores requires holding an architecture license which is ARM's highest-level license (beyond the perpetual multi-use — use a core in any product indefinitely — and the subscription — use any ARM product for a set duration). There are about a dozen architecture license holders.