Makes me wonder if ARM licenses will soon mandate that all processors in an SoC be ARM. There’s a certain hint of ARM desperation in their treatment of Qualcomm over Nuvia IP.
That would only result in no processors in a SoC being ARM.
At most, they'd get some licensees to comply for a single generation of chips. The next one would have given them enough time to rid of ARM.
For most licensees, it wouldn't even be possible to release one generation like that, as most are licensing IP blocks from multiple vendors, which might internally use whatever ISAs. Obviously, the owners of these IP blocks would hurry up and move to RISC-V, too, in order to protect their business models.
At most, they'd get some licensees to comply for a single generation of chips. The next one would have given them enough time to rid of ARM.
For most licensees, it wouldn't even be possible to release one generation like that, as most are licensing IP blocks from multiple vendors, which might internally use whatever ISAs. Obviously, the owners of these IP blocks would hurry up and move to RISC-V, too, in order to protect their business models.