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> There are lots of things that cost money in hardware design, and ISA licensing is a very small part of them. Indeed - and this is exactly the point of ISA li
by wolfgke 8y ago
> There are lots of things that cost money in hardware design, and ISA licensing is a very small part of them.
Indeed - and this is exactly the point of ISA licensing (and IP blocks): to make it sufficiently cheaper to just license the ISA or IP blocks instead of developing the product from ground up.
- q3k 8y agoRight, but with RISC-V you can actually have some competition to implement RISC-V between multiple vendors, hopefully driving prices down.
- wolfgke 8y ago> Right, but with RISC-V you can actually have some competition to implement RISC-V between multiple vendors, hopefully driving prices down. I am not convinced that competition is always a good thing here: lots of competitors lead to shrinking margins. This means less money that can be invested into innovating by the respective companies.