[hashtag-til]

That’s the model when you’re in the IP business - nothing new here.

This is what you use to fund the next generation of said IP. There is no magic.

[hajile]

The whole ALA essentially boils down to "you pay us because other companies made our ISA popular".

This is why companies are pushing toward RISC-V so hard. If ARM's ISA were open, then ARM would have to compete with lots of other companies to create the best core implementations possible or disappear.

[sangnoir]

Well, I suppose the magic is in crossing your t's and dotting your i's when drafting legal contracts pertaining to said IP. Arm failed to do that.