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According to the report, Arm wants to stop charging chip vendors to make Arm chips, and instead wants to charge device makers—especially smartphone manufacturer
by causi 4y ago
According to the report, Arm wants to stop charging chip vendors to make Arm chips, and instead wants to charge device makers—especially smartphone manufacturers—a fee based on the overall price of the final product.
Hmm, I wonder if this could put the brakes on the vomitously expensive phones that dominate the market these days.
- soup10 4y agothat's not how it works, arm wants a bigger cut, they aren't trying to make the pie smaller
- doubled112 4y agoI would imagine if ARM wants more money, smart phone manufacturers will not want to make less money and pass that extra cost off to the consumer.
- wolpoli 4y agoI recall news about Qualcomm charging a fee based on the overall price of the final product too. But does Arm have as strong of a hold on the market, compared to Qualcomm, to pull it off?
- srgpqt 4y agoWell, practically every single Apple product is using ARM-based processors.