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cost. it is stupidly expensive to include any sort of commercial MCU core(s) in your chip. Ancedata: ARM won't even talk with small ASIC fabless companies, even
by artemonster 7y ago
cost. it is stupidly expensive to include any sort of commercial MCU core(s) in your chip. Ancedata: ARM won't even talk with small ASIC fabless companies, even if they are willing to shell out big upfront costs and royalties per chip that ARM demands. Having free or affordable alternaties is a great driving force for the industry.
- seemslegit 7y agoThat makes sense but goes under the "increasing the number of players" benefits
- lechienquipete 7y ago> ARM won't even talk with small ASIC fabless companies, even if they are willing to shell out big upfront costs and royalties per chip that ARM demands [Citation needed] There's literally 0 upfront costs for a Cortex-M3 [0] [0] https://developer.arm.com/products/designstart https://developer.arm.com/products/designstart
- nrclark 7y agoThat's pretty recent for ARM, as they face growing pressure from companies switching to RISC-V for their internal MCUs.
- petra 7y agoWhat about other companies besides ARM, licensing cores. Are their costs exaggerated ? Are they affordable for processor customization ?