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Don’t just give the extortionists more money

Or maybe they were just trying to pay a lot less money, and then they got caught at their little trick.

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Do you know how much money you have to pay to make a RISC V chip? Even less than that, since it’s free

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If it’s that’s easy / cheap then why have they not?

This is a big ol’ game of bluff from both sides. So, according to you, Qualcomm should call their bluff?

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They would need a new core design

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Development is never free, especially, if you have to build new knowhow and can not build upon the one they have built at development of ARM chips.

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By that logic every company would just run on linux. Free to use ≠ free to implement and support.

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You have not read the article.

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