[lechienquipete]

> ARM won't even talk with small ASIC fabless companies, even if they are willing to shell out big upfront costs and royalties per chip that ARM demands

[Citation needed] There's literally 0 upfront costs for a Cortex-M3 [0]

[0] https://developer.arm.com/products/designstart

[nrclark]

That's pretty recent for ARM, as they face growing pressure from companies switching to RISC-V for their internal MCUs.