Microsoft's ARM Licence May Upset Wide Range of Markets
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Week 32
August 2010 -
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On 23 July 2010, ARM and Microsoft announced that Microsoft had signed an ARM architecture licence. Details of the agreement were not disclosed.
ARM's architecture licence gives licensees the ability to access and modify ARM's micro architecture to create optimized chip designs. This differs from ARM's implementation licence, under which licensees implement ARM's processor cores without lower-level modifications. Implementation licences are widely held by suppliers of mobile application, communication and graphics processors.
