
Arm’s technology is in almost all the 1.4 billion smartphones made each year. — Bloomberg
After revolutionising software, the open-source movement is threatening to do same to the chip industry.
Big technology companies have begun dabbling with RISC-V, which replaces proprietary know-how in a key part of the chip design process with a free standard that anyone can use. While it’s early days, this could create a new crop of processors that compete with Intel Corp products and whittle away at the licensing business of Arm Holdings Plc.
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