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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by varispeed on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @09:26PM (#26964278)
What stops anyone from implementing ARM ISA on FPGA? If you think of an ISA like an API - that's something that is not copyrightable, so in theory anyone could do ARM on FPGA. So I am guessing that nobody wants to bear the cost of such development and also risking potential lawsuit?
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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by edrxty on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @09:58PM (#26964531)
Yeah, that's pretty much it. There's no real upside and you risk a lawsuit. There are plenty of other ISAs that will work and are licensable for FPGA development
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