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Re:Why It’s So Hard to Create New Processors by artemonster on Sunday April 12, 2020 @09:54AM (#22848252)
cost. it is stupidly expensive to include any sort of commercial MCU core(s) in your chip. Ancedata: ARM won't even talk with small ASIC fabless companies, even if they are willing to shell out big upfront costs and royalties per chip that ARM demands. Having free or affordable alternaties is a great driving force for the industry.
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Re:Why It’s So Hard to Create New Processors by lechienquipete on Sunday April 12, 2020 @11:22AM (#22848788)
> ARM won't even talk with small ASIC fabless companies, even if they are willing to shell out big upfront costs and royalties per chip that ARM demands

[Citation needed] There's literally 0 upfront costs for a Cortex-M3 [0]

[0] https://developer.arm.com/products/designstart

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Re:Why It’s So Hard to Create New Processors by nrclark on Sunday April 12, 2020 @12:13PM (#22849157)
That's pretty recent for ARM, as they face growing pressure from companies switching to RISC-V for their internal MCUs.
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Re:Why It’s So Hard to Create New Processors by petra on Sunday April 12, 2020 @01:13PM (#22849552)
What about other companies besides ARM, licensing cores. Are their costs exaggerated ? Are they affordable for processor customization ?
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Re:Why It’s So Hard to Create New Processors by seemslegit on Sunday April 12, 2020 @10:30AM (#22848469)
That makes sense but goes under the "increasing the number of players" benefits
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