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Or Nvidia raises the license fees to crazy levels. Maybe the contract terms prevent that? If not that would cause some big problems for a few years as companies
by keanebean86 6y ago
Or Nvidia raises the license fees to crazy levels. Maybe the contract terms prevent that? If not that would cause some big problems for a few years as companies scramble to find alternatives or design in house.
- protomyth 6y agoI would imagine Apple had themselves protected before the SoftBank acquisition.
- close04 6y ago> Or Nvidia raises the license fees to crazy levels ARM was founded as a joint venture between Apple and Acorn, and Apple funded, helped design, and built their first joint ARM chip (the 610), and the ARMv3 architecture. I'd say they have a special relationship. They're the first licensee and like all the big names (Intel, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung, etc.) have a far more permissive architectural license that allows them to extend the ISA or modify ARM cores as long as they comply fully with the ARM architecture. They also hold a lot of related patents. So Apple is the last company that should worry about licensing (nothing to lose), or be interested in buying ARM (nothing to gain).