[sdiy] The magic of ARM [was: Re: Infineon]

[Rainer Buchty]

On Fri, 9 Aug 2013, Lanterman, Aaron wrote:

> This may be going to far afield, but I am curious: what is it about 
> the ARM designs in particular that has led to that architecture 
> becoming so completely dominant, vs., say MIPS or whatever?

Licensing.

ARM has a very interesting licensing scheme. Instead of huge 
down-payments plus per-item royalties like the others they pretty much 
license on a per-item base.

Rainer