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Re:Arm Announces Client CPU Roadmap For Laptops by sweden on Friday August 17, 2018 @11:57AM (#17783710)
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.

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Re:Arm Announces Client CPU Roadmap For Laptops by striking on Friday August 17, 2018 @12:07PM (#17783782)
IIRC it also heavily depends on ARM's TrustZone architecture, it's not like they just "happened" to use ARM.
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Re:Arm Announces Client CPU Roadmap For Laptops by monocasa on Friday August 17, 2018 @12:27PM (#17783966)
I mean, they did license it from ARM; it's a Cortex A5 last time I checked.
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