Comment by hashtag-til
1 year ago
That’s the model when you’re in the IP business - nothing new here.
This is what you use to fund the next generation of said IP. There is no magic.
1 year ago
That’s the model when you’re in the IP business - nothing new here.
This is what you use to fund the next generation of said IP. There is no magic.
The whole ALA essentially boils down to "you pay us because other companies made our ISA popular".
This is why companies are pushing toward RISC-V so hard. If ARM's ISA were open, then ARM would have to compete with lots of other companies to create the best core implementations possible or disappear.
Well, I suppose the magic is in crossing your t's and dotting your i's when drafting legal contracts pertaining to said IP. Arm failed to do that.