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Arm processors: Everything you need to know now

By Scott Fulton III | March 30, 2021 -- 21:35 GMT
https://www.zdnet.com/article/arm-processors-everything-you-need-to-know-now/

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Perhaps the best explanation of Arm's business model, as well as its relationship with its own intellectual property, is to be found in a 2002 filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission:

We take great care to establish and maintain the proprietary integrity of our products. We focus on designing and implementing our products in a "cleanroom" fashion, without the use of intellectual property belonging to other third parties, except under strictly maintained procedures and express license rights. In the event that we discover that a third party has intellectual property protections covering a product that we are interested in developing, we would take steps to either purchase a license to use the technology or work around the technology in developing our own solution so as to avoid infringement of that other company's intellectual property rights. Notwithstanding such efforts, third parties may yet make claims that we have infringed their proprietary rights, which we would defend.