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GlobalFoundries to Acquire MIPS

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224 points mshockwave | 2 comments | 08 Jul 25 16:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.442s | source
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somanyphotons ◴[08 Jul 25 17:48 UTC] No.44502326[source]▶
How are the various riscv cpu IP vendors generally doing financially?

Is this the very beginning of a market consolidation?

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kragen ◴[08 Jul 25 19:49 UTC] No.44503396[source]▶
I don't think people generally pay for RISC-V CPU IP.
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1. aseipp ◴[08 Jul 25 20:36 UTC] No.44503847[source]▶
Companies that are putting down millions for fab runs absolutely pay shitloads of money for it. The cost of design and verification of those components is enormous and that's mostly what you pay for. People have been shipping Andes and SiFive IP for years now. Downloading source dumps for C910 cores is not the hard part.

For most places that kind of high-cost work doesn't make much sense when their product isn't "a CPU", and they also typically have to buy other IP anyway like memory controllers or I/O blocks -- so buying a CPU core isn't that strange in the grand scheme.

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2. kragen ◴[08 Jul 25 21:03 UTC] No.44504056[source]▶
Thank you very much!