Wednesday, July 14, 2004
ARM: The Unheralded Monopoly?
Posted by Janak Parekh in "NEWS" @ 05:00 PM
"Imagine a company that controls more than 80 percent of its segment of the cell phone market and has 40 percent of the digital camera market. Now it wants to expand its reach in consumer electronics. Many would consider it predatory--even a monopolist. Somehow, though, Cambridge, England-based ARM just doesn't give people the willies the same way behemoths like Microsoft or Intel do. You'd be hard pressed to find anyone spouting "ARM is evil! EVIL!!!" in a chat room."
The ARM instruction set architecture has gained dominance -- there's a number of vendors making large number of ARM chips (in other words, licensing their base technology), and they're being used in an increasingly large number of devices. I'm not sure that the analogy to Microsoft or Intel holds water, but it's still interesting and thought-provoking reading.
The ARM instruction set architecture has gained dominance -- there's a number of vendors making large number of ARM chips (in other words, licensing their base technology), and they're being used in an increasingly large number of devices. I'm not sure that the analogy to Microsoft or Intel holds water, but it's still interesting and thought-provoking reading.
