> …and the design of the hardware (not individual chip fab but like... abstractly, somehow?) Keep in mind that I am NOT well-informed about this and I may say

> …and the design of the hardware (not individual chip fab but like... abstractly, somehow?) Keep in mind that I am NOT well-informed about this and I may say some wrong things. https://www.arm.com/why-arm/how-licensing-works https://www.arm.com/why-arm/how-licensing-works From what I understand, ARM will give you various different implementations of different ARM cores, depending on the licensing terms. My guess is that this includes: - RTL optimized for simulation - RTL optimized for synthesis, maybe with variants for FPGA vs ASIC - Various lower-level implementations, complete with layout. Just a “block” that you drop onto your chip design. I imagine that these are something like “here’s a block that you can give to TSMC for their 16nm process”