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dylan522p says above: > Chips themselves can be sold, yes. The IP cannot be licensed to non Chinese based semi firms. I'd be astonished if licenses to Chinese
by klelatti 5y ago
dylan522p says above:
> Chips themselves can be sold, yes. The IP cannot be licensed to non Chinese based semi firms.
I'd be astonished if licenses to Chinese SoC designers prevented products with those SoC's being sold outside China. So RockChip, Spreadtrum etc would be cut off from the rest of the world? Or forced to license separately with Arm UK for chips for products that are to be exported? Seems very unlikely.
Plus I'd expect we'd have seen action taken already if they really had broken the terms of the licensing.
Agreed that we're all speculating to some extent though!
- 908B64B197 5y ago> Or forced to license separately with Arm UK for chips for products that are to be exported? Seems very unlikely. Or do nothing and look at their chips being turned back to sand as soon as they land in a western country.
- klelatti 5y agoBy who and on what grounds? You need to point out a law they have actually broken.
- 908B64B197 5y agoPatent infringement, quite simply! Custom's responsibility is to destroy counterfeit goods.
- klelatti 5y agoBut the point is that Arm China have a license! You may not like it but AC / Allen Wu seem to be operating within Chinese law.
- 908B64B197 5y agoThey can infringe patents and distribute counterfeits all they want on the mainland. As soon as it gets to the west, it will go in the shredder.
- dylan522p 5y agoThey are allowed to sell chips outside of china with Arm IP licensed from Arm China