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ARM could consider to put a team on designing RISC-V chips. Remember, ARM earns money by licensing IP. RV is an open architecture, but a specific implementatio
by RetroTechie 3y ago
ARM could consider to put a team on designing RISC-V chips.
Remember, ARM earns money by licensing IP. RV is an open architecture, but a specific implementation or SoC based on it can be licensed IP just the same (probably is - gpu's etc). And several companies are doing just that.
ARM has great expertise in this area. No reason it couldn't be a similar big player in RISC-V world (or at least, hedge their bets).
In ARM's shoes, what would you prefer: RISC-V eating your market share, or RISC-V cores designed & licensed by ARM doing so?
Not all silicon vendors design their own cores just because they can...
- snvzz 3y agoThis is sensible, as demonstrated by MIPS. But ARM hasn't shown signs of intelligence in the executive, for a long time now. Thus, I wouldn't count on it.