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The "nothing" probably refers to royalties which is true for architectural licensees like Apple. They instead pay for that license which is not sold per-CPU.
by wyldfire 3y ago
The "nothing" probably refers to royalties which is true for architectural licensees like Apple. They instead pay for that license which is not sold per-CPU.
- klelatti 3y agoIt was very clear that they meant nothing at all. > Apple pays nothing, because they do not license ARM cores in any way, instead having a full royalty-free license for ARM ISA (and afaik covering updates too) since before ARM got big.
- p_l 3y agoI will admit to being a bit hyperbolic there. Compared to normal ARM licensing, it's way less. Meanwhile I recall start of RISC-V hype being, among other things, Western Digital dropping a ton of investment money into it just to escape ARM license costs.
- klelatti 3y agoWe all get a bit hyperbolic at times! Yes, I'm sure it's a lot less than most customers pay. I remember the WD announcement. They have open sourced the cores now I think. If you're shipping millions of drives those fees will add up.
- brucehoult 3y agoFor values of "now" equal to 2019 https://github.com/westerndigitalcorporation/swerv_eh1 https://github.com/westerndigitalcorporation/swerv_eh1