Amazon gets behind free rival to Arm’s microchips

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16 pointsckastner4 comments

Not sure why they'd do that - there's far more infrastructure for ARM. RISC is a backwater. But maybe economic viability of products isn't the goal.

>Not sure why they'd do that - there's far more infrastructure for ARM.

It'll be about patent licencing fees. Those couple of dollars per chips really add up when you have hundreds of thousands of machines running all over the world.

>RISC is a backwater.

RISC-V has been gaining a lot of attention recently. These chips are shipping in hard drive controllers now, and they're only going to spread.

Even if they are on a Million of Server with $10 per Chip it is still only $10M. Compared to R&D and other cost of designing, Fabbing, and testing, other Tools Set provided by ARM ecosystem this is a rounding error in TCO.

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