[sdiy] The magic of ARM

[Lanterman, Aaron]

On Aug 9, 2013, at 2:02 PM, Rainer Buchty <rainer at buchty.net>
 wrote:

> 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?
> 
> 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.

Very interesting! So it's not that ARM is *technically superior* to MIPS, or AVR32, etc? They basically nailed a better business model? 

- Aaron