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Apple’s involvement with ARM’s founding has zero impact on their negotiations or pricing.
by xadhominemx 3y ago
Apple’s involvement with ARM’s founding has zero impact on their negotiations or pricing.
- devnullbrain 3y agoIt does when that involvement means they're one of the few architecture licensees. Allegedly.
- klelatti 3y agoThey have an architectural license (for Arm v8/9) because they are a huge customer with deep pockets not because of a shareholding they sold a decade before that architecture was announced!
- monocasa 3y agoIt's not the deep pockets per se, but the hand Apple had in designing AArch64. Apparently their relationship with ARM is more like the Intel/AMD relationship, ie. cross-licensing.
- fomine3 3y agoSoftBank has/invests so many business related to Apple (like mobile career), that may affected to negotiation.