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A comment on The Octopart Microcontroller Price Index. Parent comment

Re:The Octopart Microcontroller Price Index by hkmurakami on Friday May 23, 2014 @02:58PM (#7790786)
Do such uses of IP manifest itself in this price index though? (I presume not, since even bare silicon prices should be several cents cheaper than a final packaged discrete device for SIP uses)
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Re:The Octopart Microcontroller Price Index by jmpe on Friday May 23, 2014 @03:16PM (#7790849)
One extreme is ARM cores: incredibly popular, there are several in your laptop and probably half a dozen in your smartphone, ... ARM holdings is an IP & design company, they design & license cores.

But regarding those old cores I mentioned ... lots of use because it's legacy with lots of developers that know the architecture.

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