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Nonsense. OEM can buy ARM "IP" and jam it into a SoC with plenty of poorly designed tweaks and additional devices and it's not happening. Also, open does not m
by eeZah7Ux 9y ago
Nonsense. OEM can buy ARM "IP" and jam it into a SoC with plenty of poorly designed tweaks and additional devices and it's not happening.
Also, open does not mean that random changes are allowed as part of the original design. You can have a license that prevents using the original name of a CPU on modified versions.
- quantummkv 9y agoMost OEM's do not have the money to buy ARM IP. Those that have money, i.e, Samsung, Huawei and Apple, are doing it. AFAIK open does mean that I can fork and make whatever changes I want to the original design. I cannot use the name, but i can use everything else.
- pjc50 9y ago> SoC with plenty of poorly designed tweaks and additional devices and it's not happening It's called Qualcomm.
- makomk 9y agoAs I understand it, the ARM IP license that allows companies to customise the actual cores is very expensive, still requires the resulting customisations to comply with the ARM specification, and relatively few companies have the resources to do so.
- eeZah7Ux 9y agoCustomization != "plenty of poorly designed tweaks". I was replying to the parent using the word "disaster"