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When you're designing a new chip and working at a a fabless semiconductor startup, that doesn't mean you're free from corporate constraints. The most obvious is
by therealcamino 4y ago
When you're designing a new chip and working at a a fabless semiconductor startup, that doesn't mean you're free from corporate constraints. The most obvious is that if you design an ARM-based chip, the company has to pay royalties, and if you design a RISC-V chip, you don't.
- hajile 4y agoARM typically charges 1-2% in royalties. A company has to sell a LOT of chips for this to be the driving factor. In the case of a startup, we're talking about eliminating two entire teams costing tens to hundreds of millions per year and probably getting to market faster. You can sell a LOT of chips for even a small 100M R&D cost.