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minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoI would have thought the license agreement would be one of the least expensive parts of making modern high-performance chips.
minus-squaredeadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoQuite 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.
I would have thought the license agreement would be one of the least expensive parts of making modern high-performance chips.
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.