• @Korkki@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    31 month ago

    It can be really bad for the industry if ARM is both a producer of chips and the gatekeeper within the ARM ecosystem. I don’t know if there are laws against this or loopholes through them, but what is going to prevent them from just withholding license or technologies to push competition out?

    • Mohamed
      link
      fedilink
      English
      01 month ago

      I would think, in the US, antitrust laws would apply.

      Is this different from Intel and x86 architecture? (Genuinely asking)

      • @Korkki@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        1
        edit-2
        1 month ago

        I would think, in the US, antitrust laws would apply.

        ARM is brittish

        Is this different from Intel and x86 architecture? (Genuinely asking)

        yes the ARM architecture is it’s own thing, licensed by ARM.

  • @Buffalox@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    2
    edit-2
    1 month ago

    Arm reportedly to start competing with its own customers this year.

    A few decades ago, this used to be a sure recipe for losing customers and marketshare, but the world has changed, maybe because the chip market lacks real competition, of course there is competition, but the number of players are too few, and they are too specialized for direct competition.

    • @SinningStromgald@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      21 month ago

      It is two articles in a trenchcoat. One is about Arm making CPU’s. The other is about Arm poaching talent from companies it currently sells to.

      Instead of posting two articles with two different links about Arm Toms decided one was enough.

    • partial_accumen
      link
      fedilink
      English
      21 month ago

      Understanding the headline requires prior knowledge of the industry and ARM specifically.

      Even without reading the article, I know that ARM is one of the only CPU companies I know of that designs CPUs but doesn’t actually manufacture any of them for sale themselves. They license their CPU designs to other companies that use them in their own products which is why Apple can make their M silicon ARM CPUS for iOS devices and Qualcomm can their Snapdragon CPUs smartphone CPUs.

      What this article headline is saying that ARM, for the first time, is manufacturing its own CPUs and not just licensing their tech to others to do so. Further, ARM is apparently poaching employees from their licensees that have ARM CPU knowledge to do it.

          • partial_accumen
            link
            fedilink
            English
            11 month ago

            In defense of OP, OP didn’t add that by themselves. I saw the article when it was first linked and it had the apostrophe “s” in there just like OP’s headline. So the headline was corrected at the source after OP posted it here.

        • partial_accumen
          link
          fedilink
          English
          11 month ago

          I’m not defending the grammar. It is/was horrible. I was saying it was possible to understand what the headline was trying to communicate if you had knowledge of the industry.

      • @orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        link
        fedilink
        English
        01 month ago

        None of this makes the sentence less cumbersome. I understand what ARM does. I understand their relationship with other companies.

        The sentence is objectively awful.

        • partial_accumen
          link
          fedilink
          English
          31 month ago

          I didn’t say it wasn’t cumbersome, but your first post said you didn’t understand what it was communicating. Do you now understand what the headline was communicating?

  • Ghostalmedia
    link
    fedilink
    English
    01 month ago

    Self-designed. Self-made is a stretch. It doesn’t look like they’re opening a foundry.