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Arm isn't like Intel they don't make their own hardware, they design and license their chip designs. A hardware maker would have to license one of these upcomin
by shams93 8y ago
Arm isn't like Intel they don't make their own hardware, they design and license their chip designs. A hardware maker would have to license one of these upcoming future chip designs, build their own chip based on it and then sell that. Which is why it takes the resources of an Apple or an Asus to produce these devices. Just the license from Arm alone is a huge cost up front.
- Skunkleton 8y agoRight, but you can still buy these chips after they have made it through this process. There are many ARM chips with decent performance that you can get as a SOM. Some of them even have decent documentation.
- monocasa 8y agoTo be fair, ARM does build some of it's own chips, they just don't sell them to end users and they cost a very pretty penny. Their RealView/Integrator/Versatile boards have custom ARM chips.