All but #4. Our business model is to sell chips, not licenses. Why? Intel's quarterly dividend is bigger than ARM's annual revenue.
Licensing is a backup plan.
Ah, thanks for the clarification.
Re:Mill Computing in 2017
by warkdarrior on Thursday January 12, 2017 @07:07PM
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You forgot:
5) Intel really likes their technology, but they do not want to license it so they decide to implement tweaks around the Mill patents.
1) Intel is very heavily invested in x86, and they're likely to be very reluctant to change.
2) The Mill folks have patents, which might be hard to work around.
3) If the Mill becomes successful, they're likely to either be bought out by one of Intel's behomoth competitors, like Samsung or Qualcomm, or perhaps even by Intel itself.
4) If Intel really likes their technology, they could license it from Mill Computing. It would be surprising for Mill to say no to a reasonable offer, considering that they don't have their own fabs and it's their business model is to license their designs to those that do.