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by brucehoult 1704 days ago
It's not a chip, it's a CPU core. You still need to add a lot of things to make a chip: interface for DRAM, something like PCIe for input and output. And you have to do layout, timing calculations, and all that kind of thing.

But yes, if you have sufficient funding and expertise you can take their CPU core -- approximately as good as the performance cores in the Samsung Galaxy S8 or the Raspberry Pi 4 -- and without permission or payment or even notification use them in your own chips.