• Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    I would have thought the license agreement would be one of the least expensive parts of making modern high-performance chips.

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      1 year ago

      Quite the opposite. Well, sort of.

      It’s easy to get a licence, you just need money. Lots of money.

      That’s if you can get a licence. Intel only licensed to AMD because the USA military requires two vendors.

      ARM charges an, err, arm and a leg.