> Amazon became an ARM architecture licensee Does Amazon really have an ARM architecture license? I thought these chips were using stock ARM cores (licensing c

> Amazon became an ARM architecture licensee Does Amazon really have an ARM architecture license? I thought these chips were using stock ARM cores (licensing cores only, not architecture). I asked on HN on the original announcement and it sounded like that was the case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18553028 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18553028 Also, I would argue that a custom ISA matters far less than a custom microarchitecture. After all, Intel is (mostly) using AMD's ISA.