Re: Arm Ltd Making Chips Now

Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 22:11:14 -0000 (UTC), I wrote:
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Now they want to move away from that model, and start making chips
themselves. In effect, they are now competing with some of their own
customers.

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Something else that seems calculated to get up the noses of their
customers is they are poaching staff from some of those very
customers, to work on these in-house chips.
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<https://www.computerworld.com/article/3825123/arm-secures-meta-as-first-customer-in-chip-push-challenging-industry-giants.html>

So... they are moving from only licensing the architecture to becoming a
fabless chip house using that architecture? Or are they actually
setting up a chip fab?
--scott
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