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Isn't arm fabless? And doesn't all smartphones use arm but via Qualcomm, allwinner, Apple's ax, or Samsung?
by bhouston 8y ago
Isn't arm fabless? And doesn't all smartphones use arm but via Qualcomm, allwinner, Apple's ax, or Samsung?
- JPLeRouzic 8y agoLook at the two links I provided. And ARM wants to provide IP compatible with 10 nm to compete with TSMC and GF: https://www.arm.com/products/physical-ip https://www.arm.com/products/physical-ip
- HelloNurse 8y agoThere might be some ARM customer who selected Intel as a foundry for their ARM design; the question is how much ARM would have to invest on such a customer. I suppose the worst case would be an expensive R&D initiative (with ARM paying Intel for prototypes) about how to make ARM cores with Intel's 10nm process, with no usable result. Not likely to sink ARM.
- Gibbon1 8y agoRolling things over in my head. Warning mere speculation. ARM doesn't sell silicon, they license IP. However might be they're licensing IP blocks. Essentially a tested CPU layout you can more or less paste into a design. Think Lego's.