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The research guys, iSuppli, rightly did not include them - they're usually paid by the chip vendor to ARM (or whatever licensor), and included in the chip price
by ableal 18y ago
The research guys, iSuppli, rightly did not include them - they're usually paid by the chip vendor to ARM (or whatever licensor), and included in the chip price. The writer tried to be clever, and missed.
Retail price = 3 x BOM (bill-of-materials) is one rule-of-thumb for volume hardware without special assembly or extraordinary software.
- joshu 18y ago(so to nitpick, iSuppli rightly DID include them? -- in the cost of the chip)
- ableal 18y agoWell, iSuppli did not mention them. The writer brought it up: "Royalty Payments Not Addressed ... One cost iSuppli's teardowns don't address: Any royalties paid to ARM." He missed the mark - he might have had a point for data formats. I think that licensing costs are borne by the manufacturers (of the final product) for firmware they toss in to decode DVDs, MP3s, etc. Cf. recent TomTom/Microsoft FAT kerfuffle.