Comment on RISC-V Hits 25% Market Penetration as Qualcomm and Meta Lead the Shift to Open-Source Silicon

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• evol@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I feel like its a similar decision why companies adopted linux over enterprise unix’s. Its kind of interesting how decentralized/open solutions are mostly used by companies versus the public.

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• Laser@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There are plenty nowadays from what I remember.

  1. They save on the ARM licensing fees. I’m not sure about the details, but I believe it’s both a flat fee and cost per chip produced
  2. They can freely add proprietary vendor extensions, which I’m not sure ARM allows
  3. They’re less restricted in general chip design (I think ARM has restricted options in the last years, Apple has some special privileges as a founding member)

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