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Apple supposedly has a indefinite 'architectural' license to design and manufacture ARM chips. Presumably that cannot be revoked.
by Eelongate 5y ago
Apple supposedly has a indefinite 'architectural' license to design and manufacture ARM chips. Presumably that cannot be revoked.
- freemint 5y agoDoes that also include access to new versions of ARM not yet released?
- bni 5y agoWhy would Apple even care about those?
- marcan_42 5y agoConsidering they've even gotten away with breaking the rules (custom ISA extensions), I imagine nothing ARM does could realistically cause Apple to be unable to continue manufacturing ARM-compatible chips.
- garblegarble 5y agoYeah, turns out when you're one of the founders of ARM you get a pretty broad license!
- handelaar 5y agoI would imagine that Apple (which put money into Acorn and ARM JVs over thirty years ago and I think was the first third-party company to do so, by a very wide margin) has a much older license than anybody else.