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Re:Is it time for open processors? by eeZah7Ux on Friday January 19, 2018 @05:03AM (#16185178)
Nonsense. OEM can buy ARM "IP" and jam it into a SoC with plenty of poorly designed tweaks and additional devices and it's not happening.

Also, open does not mean that random changes are allowed as part of the original design. You can have a license that prevents using the original name of a CPU on modified versions.

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Re:Is it time for open processors? by pjc50 on Friday January 19, 2018 @05:45AM (#16185321)
> SoC with plenty of poorly designed tweaks and additional devices and it's not happening

It's called Qualcomm.

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Re:Is it time for open processors? by quantummkv on Friday January 19, 2018 @05:33AM (#16185283)
Most OEM's do not have the money to buy ARM IP. Those that have money, i.e, Samsung, Huawei and Apple, are doing it. AFAIK open does mean that I can fork and make whatever changes I want to the original design. I cannot use the name, but i can use everything else.
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Re:Is it time for open processors? by makomk on Friday January 19, 2018 @08:34AM (#16186047)
As I understand it, the ARM IP license that allows companies to customise the actual cores is very expensive, still requires the resulting customisations to comply with the ARM specification, and relatively few companies have the resources to do so.
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Re:Is it time for open processors? by eeZah7Ux on Monday January 22, 2018 @05:16PM (#16208509)
Customization != "plenty of poorly designed tweaks".

I was replying to the parent using the word "disaster"

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