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Yet their purity brought them no commercial benefit.
by themafia 5mo ago
Yet their purity brought them no commercial benefit.
- Dwedit 5mo agoARM got all the commercial benefit once they switched from making chips to providing full designs ready to integrate into other chips.
- themafia 5mo ago> to providing full designs ready to integrate Yes, once the market came into existence, ARM was well situated to take advantage of it. > all the commercial benefit "All" is a tricky term to use here. They got some. An appreciable amount even. Their business model leaves quite a bit on the floor compared to desktop chips.
- chadgpt3 5mo agoIt turned out the die area saved by eliminating the complicated sequencer and microcode ROM enabled them to add another 16 datapath bits and make the first 32 bit microprocessor.