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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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