Path: ...!news-out.netnews.com!postmaster.netnews.com!eu1.netnews.com!not-for-mail X-Trace: DXC=5?RmJOc=Fc[h^C>YJCN>U]HWonT5<]0T]djI?Uho:Xe[Leo?9o4lXdQXKMDIj;S;>W[el]69E]KbZH6QbELj<9E_7;AXLZ8`5`_;6[IiUmL4SQ X-Complaints-To: support@blocknews.net Newsgroups: comp.misc From: Retrograde Subject: Re: Arm Ltd Making Chips Now References: Reply-To: fungus@amongus.com.invalid X-Face: B,ckSl,FpK$Tw&Gx_oee5Tcj|RCK=sbQ=a&cJ9)e*A|.f}uctF}Rohq&$BI&OBVck/zSV DV s<~Tu)q"Z]^2KikYTfy^bh'9MsB'ObTszVRGI_#zXVB\_B4BE~|Ad User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Date: 16 Feb 2025 16:35:26 GMT Lines: 27 Message-ID: <67b213ce$9$22$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 X-Trace: 1739723726 reader.netnews.com 22 127.0.0.1:49383 Bytes: 2346 On 2025-02-14, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > Up to now, Arm (the company) has never made chips, only chip designs > (and designs for chip components) that it has licensed to other > companies. This model has been spectacularly successful, making ARM > (the architecture) the most successful computer architecture ever, > shipping more chips per year than the entire population of the Earth. > > 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. Will this, and other slightly worrying moves from the > company, make some licensees think twice about being so committed to > ARM, and start looking to other more freely-licensed alternatives, > like RISC-V? Will this, if not kill the goose that laid the golden > egg, at least severely clip its wings? > I don't know if this is a good idea or a bad one, but was just thinking it's like Intel went full-speed down a very long, dead end street and are now in serious jeopardy. ARM in the server room is a big deal. At work I'm conscious that 90% of what I do can be done on a low-powered Android tablet requiring an occasional charge, but perfectly usable on a plane, or with a battery pack etc. But that one stupid Windows app requires I lug around a heavy laptop/charger, and run a Win10/Intel machine that lasts <3 hours on a charge while running hot. Ask me which one I'd rather travel with. Go ARM, go!