Re:Arm Announces Client CPU Roadmap For Laptops
by sweden on Friday August 17, 2018 @11:57AM
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No, it is not licensed from Arm. AMD's PSP is a system built by AMD itself, it just happened for them to buy Arm cores to build their system.
They could have used MIPS, PowerPC or any other CPU cores for PSP, they just decided to go with Arm.
In 2013 AMD successfully fabricated a CPU with said ARM Cortex core embedded, thus that was the first year they actually offered their PSP. AMD had similar problems with their APU's for a number of years IIRC, whereby making a single chip with both CPU and GPU on it had poor yields with a high percentage of dead chips.