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Well, the big question about this is that what that "licensing" actually means. Does the licensee receive just some sort of "right" to use the "ISA" (the logical abstraction), or does it actually receive some IP core properties designed by ARM, or what the heck even happens? Does my question even make sense?
Like, if every little rinky-dink semiconductor manufacturer actually develops and keeps its implementations of ARM ISA all to itself, this situation is already better than with the Intel/AMD oligopoly, unquestionably. At least, it's not as easily subvertible.
But if it's the other way, like, as if ARM owns anything, it would be even worse.