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Can you expand on that concern? Rpi uses a Broadcom soc.. so it isn’t like they deal with arm directly.
by rgbrenner 6y ago
Can you expand on that concern? Rpi uses a Broadcom soc.. so it isn’t like they deal with arm directly.
- dheera 6y agoDesigns of future ARM versions could end up being skewed toward NVIDIA's needs or worse, designed to or information withheld in ways that kill other embedded products and monopolize the embedded market. They could theoretically simply stop licensing ARM to Broadcom, although that might invoke some anti-trust suits.
- rjsw 6y agoBroadcom is Acorn, there is a suggestion in another comment that Apple has a perpetual licence to ARM, maybe Broadcom has as well.