Sources: some ARM customers are considering alternatives after the company moved to increase their licensing fees by as much as four times
(Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp-owned (9984.T) semiconductor technology supplier Arm Ltd has moved to raise licensing fees for some customers in recent negotiations …
There are literally no alternatives. What are you going to do, make a phone powered by an Intel Atom chip that can't run any software and gets four hours of battery life? https://twitter.com/...
“License costs vary, but can total millions of dollars for critical designs such as complex computing cores. The hikes have prompted some licensees to consider non-Arm alternatives” https://www.reuters.com/...