"Altogether, AMD, Apple, Cadence, Google, Intel, MediaTek, NVIDIA, Samsung, Synopsys, and TSMC have signaled an interest to purchase up to an aggregate of $735 million" – so in other words, about $7M per company. Talk about chump change.Reply
I am amazed that as few as 80% of TSMC wafers have an ARM in them - I thought tiny ARMs were absolutely ubiquitous when something has more configuration registers than it makes sense to build in silicon. I suppose that Synopsys and Cadence tend to use ARC or Tensilica when they need a tiny processor inside a DDR5 or PCIe IP block, I had a vague feeling Mentor Graphics didn't have its own in-house processor and had a deal to use ARMs.Reply
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ABR - Thursday, September 7, 2023 - link
"Altogether, AMD, Apple, Cadence, Google, Intel, MediaTek, NVIDIA, Samsung, Synopsys, and TSMC have signaled an interest to purchase up to an aggregate of $735 million" – so in other words, about $7M per company. Talk about chump change. ReplyHul8 - Friday, September 8, 2023 - link
No... Average $73.5M per company. ReplyJ.in.Tech - Monday, September 11, 2023 - link
Still 'chump change' by those company's standards! Replyballsystemlord - Saturday, September 16, 2023 - link
No, that's a lot of money for AMD to be spending. ReplyTomWomack - Tuesday, September 12, 2023 - link
I am amazed that as few as 80% of TSMC wafers have an ARM in them - I thought tiny ARMs were absolutely ubiquitous when something has more configuration registers than it makes sense to build in silicon. I suppose that Synopsys and Cadence tend to use ARC or Tensilica when they need a tiny processor inside a DDR5 or PCIe IP block, I had a vague feeling Mentor Graphics didn't have its own in-house processor and had a deal to use ARMs. Reply