2011年7月8日星期五

Mobile phones and flat-core: ARM processor Past and Present

Like most of the selling party IP, ARM IP in accordance with the value in use to determine the price. In architecture, the lower performance wholesale baby monitor than the more high-performance ARM core, wholesale car recorder the core has a lower licensing fees. In terms of silicon implementation, a kernel can be integrated to the kernel than a hardware macro to Degui. More complex problems in terms of price, holders of ARM licensees commercial fabs can provide lower prices to their license fab customers. 

Fab design through its own technology, customers wholesale ebook reader can lower or free licensing fees to obtain advance ARM ARM core. Relative to the design does not have its own dedicated semiconductor foundry, licensees for each wafer received two to three times more than the cost. Of the small amount of applications, wholesale Android Tablets  with the design department of the foundry to provide a lower overall price (through licensing fees subsidy). For mass production, since the long-term cost reduction by means of the wafer from the lower prices, reduce NRE costs of ARM, has become so specialized fab a better choice. 

Many semiconductor companies wholesale baby monitor now hold ARM licensees: Atmel, Broadcom, Cirrus Logic, Freescale, Qualcomm, Fujitsu, Intel, IBM, Infineon Technologies, Nintendo, OKI Electric Industry, Samsung, Sharp, STMicroelectronics, TI Texas Instruments and VLSI, etc. many of these companies have various forms of ARM licensees. Although the ARM licensing programs covered by the confidentiality agreement, intellectual property rights in the industry, ARM is well-known one of the most expensive CPU cores. And if the change involves a lot of structure, the cost may exceed millions of dollars.

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