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For the costs, they do not only get the license to use the ISA, but the whole processor design, as in the "source code" to the whole processor. As a licensee, y
by _ph_ 10y ago
For the costs, they do not only get the license to use the ISA, but the whole processor design, as in the "source code" to the whole processor. As a licensee, you place that design together with any other electronics you create (or license separately) on a chip to create the device you want.
- mtgx 10y agoPerhaps I'm misreading your comment, but Samsung is designing its own CPU these days. It doesn't license ARM's Cortex CPUs anymore (at least for the Galaxy S/Note series) - basically it's doing what Qualcomm and Apple are doing, too.