[phh]

To quickly lower expectations before reading the article:

> Every year with these Arm flagship chip announcements, the company also includes a wild design for a giant mega-chip that usually never gets built.

That being said, this 14-core figure is when doing a full-Arm SoC (with Arm internal bus). SoC vendors are still allowed (AFAIK [0]) to do their custom interconnect that goes higher than that

[0] there have been rumors seen here that Arm is pushing towards a model where SoC vendors must do all-Arm components. That still sounds weird to me, and I'm not witnessing any actual effect of this, so I still highly doubt it.

[als0]

> there have been rumors seen here that Arm is pushing towards a model where SoC vendors must do all-Arm components

Smells like FUD spread by Qualcomm, who are currently in a legal battle with ARM.

[dagmx]

Yep, Mediatek for example just announced an ARM processor with NVidia components and there’s already arm processors with AMD GPUs.

No other manufacturer seems to be beholden to the terms that Qualcomm is claiming.

I’m very inclined to say QC are trying to push for sympathy in the tech sphere.

[ksec]

>I’m very inclined to say QC are trying to push for sympathy in the tech sphere.

And it works every well if you were to judge it by comments on Twitter, HN and Reddit.

[dagmx]

I think it’s a testament to how people like Drama more than they like nuance.

Technical people are just as prone to it as anyone else.

[polpo]

Given that there is a whole publicly traded company that does ARM SoC interconnect as their bread and butter (Arteris IP) and they and their stock price seem to be doing OK is an indication that it’s still allowed.