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Report: Apple Pays Less Than 30 Cents in Royalties to Arm Per Chip
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LOL my cat lays on my sofa sometimes. He is the pinnacle of LAZY.
See, I can do non sequiturs too!
30% is the going rate for virtually all stores built on platforms like this. Hard to be the "pinnacle" when it's a flat plateau.
They take more than 30% from us. RAM for instance.
Didn't Apple buy shares in the IPO? I think I read that they were one of the lead investors.
They said they might — I've read 100 million, but not sure it's confirmed anywhere.
ARM was created to power the Newton. The Newton failed, and Apple was a brink of bancrupcy. Apple came back very strong with the iPhone, they invented the smartphone powered by ARM before anybody else. There were all kind of competing processors: Intel Mobile (Windows phone), Intel Xscale (Palm), MIPS, Marvell (Blackberry).
Urgent need to re-evaluate a license?
Does nobody know the history of ARM
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The fee is pretty much what I’d expect since the only reason it’s considered an ARM chip is because it runs the same instruction set. Apart from that, it’s all Apple’s work.
What Apple is paying for is a very expensive test kit to ensure that their chips are compatible with the base instruction set.
There are probably non-standard instructions that added to bleed performance out of the Swift APIs
It may pain you to learn that a company can be public and still be owned by another company or individual.
Also, didn’t Apple literally design AArch64 for ARM?
SoftBank is very much the owner of arm, holding something like 90% of the stock after what was opened for trading with their IPO.
LOL, Apple were one of the founders and developers of ARM... ARM was bought out... new owners tries to RAMP the price.. who's greedy?
That’s not how contracts work, and companies buying ARM isn’t a concern, NVIDIA tried and was blocked.
This is why apple will not be switching to risc-v, they would save almost nothing in license fees and cost billions software development.
If it was negotiated as a fixed cost that isn’t impacted by inflation or somehow tied to the cost of the chip, it’s a genius move as the dollar continues to lose value faster and faster.
Not big enough. Apple gets paid much much more by Google for keeping its search engine as the default!
For now. ARM is now a public company, you can expect shareholders to want to see that increase
I think people have been aware of the fact ARM is plenty capable of running a computer for 10+ years. I remember lots of excitement over lots of tiny cheap computers back in 2012. I think most of them faded away because they didn't have any killer apps, but the Raspberry Pi is still around and I know people are always questioning why they should buy bulky Intel servers when the Pi delivers far better performance per dollar.
Also, there's the Nintendo Switch, Nvidea Shield, and Steam Deck demonstrating that ARM is far more capable than its typical use in embedded systems suggests.
No that was Arm. They design all the extensions to the architecture.
Apple was the first to ship a AArch64 chip in a consumer product with the iPhone 5S
I was privy to the negotiations:
ARM: $1 per core.
Apple: RISC-V is free.
ARM: $.30 per SoC?
Apple: Deal.
ARM: $1 per core.
Apple: RISC-V is free.
ARM: $.30 per SoC?
Apple: Deal.
Not everyone is a tech geek or Apple lover to know.
Try referencing the information for the rest of us.
The Official History of Arm
Arm’s journey to the world’s most pervasive compute platform covers a broad timeline of company milestones and product achievements.
newsroom.arm.com