Apple pays British chip architect Arm less than 30 cents per chip in royalties, The Information reports. Apple licenses the underlying technology...
  • bum_quarter@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Wouldn’t it be still be billion of dollars considering the number of devices Apple produce?

    • mredofcourse@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Less than $134 million if the article is correct in saying that Apple accounts for less than 5% of ARM’s revenue.

    • fart_gallery@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      At a royalty of $0.30 per chip, Apple would need to order over 3.33 billion chips for ARM to hit a billion in sales.

      • deja_geek@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        That math still isn’t mathing. There are more ARM chips then just the CPU in Apple devices.