By: Anon (no.delete@this.thanks.com), February 25, 2021 4:01 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Brett (ggtgp.delete@this.yahoo.com) on February 23, 2021 3:57 pm wrote:
>The question is how much could AMD make from licensing a high performance ARM core to Qualcomm so that Qualcomm could dominate the high end even harder. Not much.
Actually, I think that they could make $0 from licensing an ARM core. As in, they are legally not allowed to. ARM sells a license to build SoCs with your own custom core, not to license that core to others.
Maybe they could do some semicustom arrangement, where Qualcomm "licenses" 95% of the SoC design to AMD, who "manufacture" (via TSMC) the chip, then "sell" it to Qualcomm... But I don't know if that would give them the legal coverage they need.
>The question is how much could AMD make from licensing a high performance ARM core to Qualcomm so that Qualcomm could dominate the high end even harder. Not much.
Actually, I think that they could make $0 from licensing an ARM core. As in, they are legally not allowed to. ARM sells a license to build SoCs with your own custom core, not to license that core to others.
Maybe they could do some semicustom arrangement, where Qualcomm "licenses" 95% of the SoC design to AMD, who "manufacture" (via TSMC) the chip, then "sell" it to Qualcomm... But I don't know if that would give them the legal coverage they need.