Weebit - 2021and beyond, page-9628

@flight11
if you extend that a bit further as an example.....a car manufacturer strikes a deal with WBT for an SoC and part of the design requirement for the system is xyz performance / resilience and capacity ....wbt produce the internal system interconnect for that order in their chip, based on those design parameters...they produce it through their fab partner who receives a production fee but its wbt's engineers that run the customer prototype ( based on that system interconnect in the chip) and license that successful ( hopefully) single design soc / noc to that customer.
= revenue stream ( WBT own that design ...by license fee to that manufacturer )
that customer may have 20 differing soc requirements for the wbt / fab produced chip within that one model order so there are 20 separate system interconnects that must be networked by the engineering team initially - ...again...if successful each of those pulls a patent licence/design fee and an engineering network fee for each of the 20 separate designed interconnects for each of those SoCs'. The fab pulls a fee on wafer production and the manufacturer pulls revenue on cheapest cost per bit manufacturing...win, win, win ( its interesting how we are discussing cars in terms of chips ...in my day it was pistons and carby's lol)

and thats just one manufacturer of one model of vehicle .....and we know how big that market alone is

again - happy to be corrected.
GLA