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Smells like leverage for the next time they renew their ARM license.

• cmrdporcupine 3y ago
  While you might be right, I suspect there will be some years of people doing chips in both ARM and RISC-V to trial balloon it and see how it goes. Most customers will already have ARM toolchain they'd just prefer to stick with. But if it works out for them, I think it will be far more than a marketing play. Having control over the ISA and dropping the license fee while still getting access to industry standard toolchains, is too tempting. ARM would not have gotten a $50B+ valuation if the license fee was seen as not a big deal.
  • 5ADBEEF 3y ago
    Nordic announced a processor w/ Arm + RISC-V cores on the same die. It's already happening!
    • sitkack 3y ago
      Right before Arm becomes MIPS, they will sue customers to not put RV cores on the same die as their Arm cores.
      • snvzz 3y ago
        They won't, as it would result on replacement of said Arm cores. ARM is dumb, but not to this extent.