Re:AI chip startup Wave to buy Silicon Valley old-timer MIPS
by baybal2 on Friday June 15, 2018 @06:55AM
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>That reason is ARM, they just crushed everyone with their business model even though they weren't best at anything.
Not business model per-se, but not being crippled by pointy hair boss types from C-levels to lowest level managers.
Second to that what got them ahead was their lack of greed and ambition.
Few people who had firsthand experience with buying IC IP licenses I know tell of MIPS 10 years ago as "we will not simply sell you a core, but force feed you all peripherals, and make you pay for 20 more licenses for god know what along the way." Compare it to ARM where you wire money today and get a guy coming to your office to drop off harddrives with netlists a week after.
For support, documentation, software, and everything else ARM was light years ahead.
Not business model per-se, but not being crippled by pointy hair boss types from C-levels to lowest level managers.
Second to that what got them ahead was their lack of greed and ambition.
Few people who had firsthand experience with buying IC IP licenses I know tell of MIPS 10 years ago as "we will not simply sell you a core, but force feed you all peripherals, and make you pay for 20 more licenses for god know what along the way." Compare it to ARM where you wire money today and get a guy coming to your office to drop off harddrives with netlists a week after.
For support, documentation, software, and everything else ARM was light years ahead.