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This feels different to me because Arm is designing these chips. It feels a bit more like a drafting company who draws plans but doesn’t build anything. They do
by codazoda 3y ago
This feels different to me because Arm is designing these chips. It feels a bit more like a drafting company who draws plans but doesn’t build anything. They don’t just have some loosely defined patent.
The linked articles are about the brand name, Arm, used in a domain. You wouldn’t put “intel” or “nvidia” in your domain name without drawing attention. Maybe we need a moniker similar to x86 to define the arm architecture more generally.
- deelowe 3y agoI would add to this that people who make statements like the parent did are woefully ignorant of how the industry really works. Board producers rarely design the entire PCB. PCB designers rarely produce the board. Chip designers rarely produce their chips. Chip producers often do some portion of the design process. And on and on. Computing is a complex business and few companies do everything in house. ARM's business model of focusing solely on the IP seems to have worked well for them. From the engineering side, it's certainly nice to have the ability to pick and choose which IP blocks we'd like to use and then shop around the design ourselves versus having to battle with Intel to get what we need while trying to poke through the various layers of obfuscation they tend to put in place.