Arm also has their own off the shelf chip designs, and most of the time, companies license the chip designs. I don’t think there are that many that have architectural licenses to use the ISA and implement it themselves/design everything in house.
Agreed. A lot of people here talk about how Steve Jobs would be rolling over in his grave if he saw Apple now, how there’s so many products and that under Steve Jobs there would be just one or “one size fits all”. But Steve was managing an entirely different beast. Apple has grown, and I think it’s perfectly reasonable to introduce more product lines to appeal to more people. It’s not as “simple” as it used to be, but it’s making more money and it’s what helped them grow to where they are today. Steve’s Apple wouldn’t apply to the Apple of today and it wouldn’t work because when you’re so big you can’t just sell 1 of each product. You need to appeal to the masses and bring in more sources of revenue. I’m not even sure if Steve Jobs managing Apple and his strategy/vision would’ve grown Apple as big as the one Tim Cook has been managing.
Apples got to have the most ridiculous architectural license and royalty terms ever lol.
Kinda cool to see tho. Does anybody know who else has a full architectural license from ARM? I think Nuvia has one?