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riscv proponents said that ARM licence rate might be reasonable, but negociation time is (or was at the time riscv was just a concept) not reasonable at all. A
by guerby 6y ago
riscv proponents said that ARM licence rate might be reasonable, but negociation time is (or was at the time riscv was just a concept) not reasonable at all.
And time to market is quite important in this area.
- eeZah7Ux 6y agoAlso: - ARM might license you cores for years and suddenly stop - you might want to switch to a different vendor but all your code, tooling and knowledge is locked-in - there is no guarantee that ARM will negotiate with you. Especially true for small companies, community projects, embargoed countries. - ARM will not allow to relicense their "IP" to 3rd parties, either paid of for free