ARM releases free Cortex-M processor cores for FPGAs
The press release linked by OP doesn't give the full story. For a better perspective see <a href="https://abopen.com/news/arm-offers-free-as-in-beer-cortex-ip-to-combat-fossi-threat/" rel="nofollow">https://abopen.com/news/arm-offers-free-as-in-beer-cortex-ip...</a><p>If you're just joining us, Arm very much sees the up and coming RISC-V stack as an immediate threat to the future of their business and is taking pro-active countermeasures - doing everything from awkward, backfiring smear campaigns against RISC-V[1] to straight up license dumping their own product to prevent developers jumping ship.<p>It's interesting to see because RISC-V is wonderful and Arm seems to recognize that. Arm Holdings is acting rationally as someone in a privileged competitive position would do. At the same time, big players like Western Digital are migrating to RISC-V so Arm is internally freaking out [2].<p>[1] <a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/10/arm_riscv_website/" rel="nofollow">https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/10/arm_riscv_website/</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/01/wdc_risc_v_edge_strategy/" rel="nofollow">https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/01/wdc_risc_v_edge_str...</a>