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Re:SoftBank's Sale of Arm to Nvidia Collapses, Arm to IPO by rswail on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @08:44AM (#30258249)
To be clear, Apple is not licensing ARM IP "just like everybody else". They have a very different relationship, being a founding shareholder, and then acquiring an "Architecture License" from ARM after also acquiring PA Semi according to Wikipedia.

So Apple Silicon is not the same as someone else licensing ARM IP.

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Re:SoftBank's Sale of Arm to Nvidia Collapses, Arm to IPO by brokencode on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @01:50PM (#30262684)
Source? According to Wikipedia, quite a few companies have an architectural license with ARM, including Intel and AMD. Maybe Apple gets a discount?

Apple may have been a founding member, but they don’t own ARM, and I’m assuming that ARM still wants to make a profit off of its licenses to Apple.

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