Will Arm make and sell its own processors?

[Daniel Nenni]

At the SoC IP conference this week there was talk about Arm's solutions team doing prototypes:

Chipmaker Arm to make its own semiconductor - FT

Arm will team up with manufacturing partners to develop the new semiconductor, FT said, citing people briefed on the move, adding that the company has built a new "solutions engineering" team that will lead the development of these prototype chips for mobile devices, laptops and other...

www.yahoo.com

The question is will Arm ultimately sell chips? According to Twitter and other absurd news sources they are:


Riceball
@korean_riceball

ARM is developing its own semiconductor for mobile... competition with Qualcomm and Samsung

 

[blueone]

Superficially this looks like a really dumb move at the wrong time. (Just when the merchant chip market is generally threatened by in-house designs fab'd at foundries.) It might be that Arm sees an existential threat to its licensing revenue from RISC-V, doesn't want to be bought, by say Nvidia, and sees no other way out. Nah. It still looks dumb to me.