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Re:Verilog sources for Western Digital's open source RISC-V ... by writepub on Saturday January 26, 2019 @11:43PM (#19010374)
Lots of unsubstantiated claims here. WD doesn't need the OSS community, the community won't make or break the project. They're a 'nice to have' at best. Remember, if this really means savings of $X (that goes to ARM ??) per unit of storage shipped, given their volumes, they'll gladly fund this to the finish line. Claiming WD needs the OSS community is like claiming chrome/Google needs the community. Sure, the community contributions are valuable, but the core funding and heavy lifting is always in-home.

As for a whole generation skipping EE, no evidence.

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Re:Verilog sources for Western Digital's open source RISC-V ... by tyingq on Sunday January 27, 2019 @01:04PM (#19012850)
Looks like royalties are somewhere in the 2% range for ARM[1]. There's also whatever markup companies like Marvell charge to WD. It sounds like WD sells around 40 million drives per year. So, even a savings of 25 cents per unit would be $10M/year.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/7112/the-arm-diaries-part-1-h...

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