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by Brybry 719 days ago
Did you confuse ARM Holdings with AMD/GlobalFoundries?
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> Did you confuse ARM Holdings with AMD/GlobalFoundries?

No. ARM is fabless. That was an outsourcing innovation not too long ago.

What I was replying to said:

> ARM holdings annoys me. I wish they hadn't stopped doing fab.

~~I thought ARM was always fabless?~~ Edit: I guess I'm somewhat mistaken after reading up on VLSI Technology.

ARM were in a jv with apple and a us vlsi fab company. They decided royalties were a better bet longterm.