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minus-squareandruid@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoOpen standard CPU instruction set. Meaning people can design new chips for it without needing to enter an expensive license agreement.
minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoI would have thought the license agreement would be one of the least expensive parts of making modern high-performance chips.
minus-squaredeadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoQuite the opposite. Well, sort of. It’s easy to get a licence, you just need money. Lots of money. That’s if you can get a licence. Intel only licensed to AMD because the USA military requires two vendors. ARM charges an, err, arm and a leg.
minus-squareBene7rddso@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoIntel licensed to Cyrix (now VIA) as well, and it wasn’t the military but IBM that wanted more suppliers
Open standard CPU instruction set. Meaning people can design new chips for it without needing to enter an expensive license agreement.
I would have thought the license agreement would be one of the least expensive parts of making modern high-performance chips.
Quite the opposite. Well, sort of.
It’s easy to get a licence, you just need money. Lots of money.
That’s if you can get a licence. Intel only licensed to AMD because the USA military requires two vendors.
ARM charges an, err, arm and a leg.
Intel licensed to Cyrix (now VIA) as well, and it wasn’t the military but IBM that wanted more suppliers