Stronger by Paying Salaries and I Have 1 Billion Employees

This was also the main reason ARM dared to make such an outrageous demand!

”Alright, I understand. Come back for now.”

Chen Yansen’s eyes narrowed slightly as he spoke in a cold voice.

”Boss, so we’re not buying the architectural license?” Wang Teng asked, startled.

He knew just how important ARM’s reduced instruction set architecture patents were to the Celestial Craft T100 and the future of Orange Technology.

Being fleeced by ARM was taking one hit. Being fleeced by Qualcomm and MediaTek would be taking two.

After all, Qualcomm and MediaTek both had to pay royalties to ARM, and this cost was naturally passed on to their customers.

”We’re not buying.”

Chen Yansen said grimly.

In 2012, ARM might have held a vast portfolio of 2,700 patents on instruction sets and microarchitectures. However, as long as they sidestepped technologies like the Thumb instruction set, multi-core scheduling, and conditional execution, Orange Technology could still forge its own path and independently develop a completely new CPU architecture.

As far as he knew, ARM would eventually shift its royalty model from charging per chip to charging per end device.

The price of a single chip ranged from 5 to 40 US Dollars, while a smartphone sold for over 150 US Dollars.

In other words, ARM would be increasing its royalties several-fold, even tenfold, in one fell swoop.

Because of this, Apple had no choice but to launch its Apple Silicon architecture. China accelerated the development of the free and open-source RISC-V architecture, and countries in Europe and America even launched ”chip acts,” raising billions of US Dollars at once, all to independently develop their own instruction set patents.

It couldn’t be helped. When it came to squeezing its clients, ARM was famously ruthless.

”Then what about the Celestial Craft T100 Chip?” Wang Teng assumed his boss was just speaking out of anger.

”I’ll take care of it,” Chen Yansen said, his voice firm and resolute.

’If I can’t even handle a simple CPU architecture, then what was the point of my rebirth? What’s the use of having this cheat?’