24 Mar
2010
24 Mar
'10
11:17 a.m.
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
That's probably why the Chinese have jumped on it (Godson/Loongson), not
that they worry excessively about licensing, but anyway.
Indeed. Not for domestic use, they don't, anyway.
But they *do* care about stuff they want to sell abroad... :?)
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Further, one
can design an mcs51-based chip without paying a dime to anyone...can't
exactly do that with ARM.
As I understand it, you can design a MIPS chip based on the published
specs and not have to pay any licensing fees. There was a patent on the
unaligned load/store instructions, but that expired in 2006 AIUI.