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Is it possible to break ARM Holdings monopoly on Smartphone processors?
Can you explain how these licensing agreements work exactly?
Sure. ARM offers two types of licenses to its customers: architecture licenses and processor licenses. Architecture licensees are allowed to develop their own instruction set architectures (ISAs), which are the fundamental building blocks of processors. Processor licensees, on the other hand, use ARM's existing ISAs and modify them in order to create their own processors. In either case, licensees pay ARM royalties based on the number of processors they sell.