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Is ARM productive? They're not making CPUs themselves...
by yread 5y ago
Is ARM productive? They're not making CPUs themselves...
- bmitc 5y agoDo patent trolls spend billions of dollars designing CPUs or whatever else they hold patents on?
- marcan_42 5y agoThey make CPU designs which they license out. That's copyrighted IP, and thus a product. If ARM stopped making CPU designs and decided to just live off of their ISA patents while doing little to no actual development, yeah, then they certainly shouldn't have the right to be milking that cow in perpetuity, in an ideal world.
- s1artibartfast 5y agoThey shouldn't have the right to sell their existing designs until the patent expires? This is the current system