From: fungus@amongus.com.invalid   
      
   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!   
      
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